How does our Sun produce energy and what nuclear reactions burn for our sake in its core? At what rate does it produce the elusive neutrinos in its core and how many penetrate us every second? What music plays inside it? Will it ever extinguish, and if so, how quickly?
How are its magnetic fields generated and how do they constantly trigger explosive phenomena in its atmosphere, such as giant eruptions, killer flares, and massive plasma ejections? What risky spacecraft are secretly observing it today, moving close to the solar furnace?
How does the Solar Wind blow? How does Space Weather threaten Earth, astronauts, and spacecraft? Are similar phenomena produced in other more "wild" stars that threaten the planets orbiting them? How do efforts to observe the Sun advance our technology?
Are Venus and Mars habitable? Is there microbial life in the oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus? What is the "frozen heart" of Pluto? Does the atmosphere of Titan resemble the primordial atmosphere of Earth, and what lakes and rivers flow on its surface? Are there huge active volcanoes in the planetary system?
Where are Voyager 1 and 2 today, and when will they reach the nearest star?
Are we observing newborn planetary systems today? How does the "god from the machine" intervene to give birth to new suns with planets around them inside the dark womb of dark and "spider-like" opaque nebulae?
How and why, while we have discovered thousands of distant exoplanets in the last 25 years, are we surrounded by "cosmic silence" and astronomical loneliness with no contact with extraterrestrial life forms?

This book, unlike any other in the international literature, presents the discoveries of the last century that have provided precise answers to these and other questions. It is introduced by academic Stamatios Krimizis.