Secrets of the Sun

54m

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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.

Cast

Herself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Himself - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Center

Himself - NASA Planetary Science

Himself - Stanford University

Herself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

Himself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory

Karel Schrjiver

Himself - Lockheed Martin

W. Dean Pesnell

Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Himself - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Phillip Chamberlin

Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Crew

Director, Producer

Paula S. Apsell

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Melanie Wallace

Associate Producer

Karinna Sjo-Gaber

Associate Producer

Philip Sheppard

Stephen Sweigart

Supervising Producer

Laurie Cahalane

Coordinating Producer

Development Producer

Pamela Rosenstein

Development Producer