Secrets of the Sun

Overview

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It convulses, it blazes, it sings. You know it as the sun. Scientists know it as one of the most amazing physics laboratories in the universe.

Directed by Duncan Copp

Top cast

Lance Lewman

Narrator

Holly Gilbert

Herself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Bill Murtagh

Himself - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Center

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Jim Green

Himself - NASA Planetary Science

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Todd Hoeksema

Himself - Stanford University

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Sarah Gibson

Herself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

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Scott McIntosh

Himself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

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Karel Schrjiver

Himself - Lockheed Martin

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W. Dean Pesnell

Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Luc Peterson

Himself - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Phillip Chamberlin

Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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