PBS
How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
The Sun: an entity worshipped as a god throughout time and across cultures. The source of all life and sustenance for our little blue space rock, and also a force of unthinkable destructive power. But soon humanity will reach out its...
SciShow
Solar Storms
Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Meet a Space Weather Scientist, with Yaireska Collado-Vega
Yaireska Collado-Vega leads a team at NASA’s Goddard Spacecraft Center that is studying the solar weather environment so that robots and people exploring space can be protected. In this episode of Gravity Assist, she describes the...
NASA
SDO: Year 6 Ultra-HD
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing...
NASA
NASA | EUNIS Sees Evidence for Nanoflare Coronal Heating
Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The new observations show temperatures in the atmosphere so hot that only one...