Sun, The

Documents the life of our closest star and the forces that sustain it. Five billion years ago a star was born. This is the story of that stunning celestial being now midway through its life and sliding inexorably towards extinction. <br><br> This video follows our fascination with THE SUN, from the primitive desert astronomy of North America Indians to the first sighting of sunspots from Galileo's 17th century telescope, and on to the rocket era when the search for the Sun's secrets hurtled beyond the earth. Astronauts peered for the first time into the maelstrom of the sun's fiery surface from an X-ray telescope on board the space shuttle. <br><br> Join the control room drama as the SOHO Solar observing spacecraft gets lost a million miles from earth, is miraculously relocated and returns images of unparalleled beauty and detail, revealing the breathtaking forces that drive the sun. Journey deep beneath the snow capped mountains of northern Japan in the search of mysterious infinitesimally tiny neutrinos, clues to processes that fuel the inferno deep within the sun's core.

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