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Investigates the nature and processes of the sun, and includes footage taken by the space probes SOHO and Ulysses. Explores the structure of the sun as well as solar phenomena such a sunspots, solar...
We are in a golden age of solar science. Scientists are making remarkable discoveries about the inferno at the Sun’s core and the magnetic chaos of its surface. This programme explores the past, present...
Movements of the sun and moon as seen by time-lapse photography. Movement of the midnight sun in polar regions. distortions of the sun at sunset, caused by refraction. Rotation of the planet Mars, seen from...
Explains the information man has collected about the sun. Discusses old and new methods of obtaining data, the influences on movement in the solar system, the various stages of the sunspot cycle, and the...
Documents the joint US-German programme to explore the vicinity of the sun, which culminated in the launching of the spacecraft Helios to orbit the sun. On 15 March 1975 it approached to within 28 million...
At Culgoora, 650km north-west of Sydney, CSIRO scientists study the sun and its atmosphere, using both radio and optical instruments. The main optical instrument is a 30cm high-resolution telescope which is...
This film documents the life of our closest star and the forces that sustain it, following humanity’s fascination with the sun, from the primitive desert astronomy of Native Americans to the first...
Shows solar features includeing prominences, flares, coronal holes, sunspots, magnetic fields.
Looks at the solar eclipse over Hawaii on 11 July 1991. The Path of Totality swept over the telescopes of the observatory on Mauna Kea mountain as it passed from the Pacific to South America. Magnetic storms...
Shows how everything on earth is ultimately powered by the sun. By powering the synthesis of the compounds of life the sun gives us both the building blocks of our very cells and the fuel to make it all work.
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