Secrets of the Sun (2012)
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.
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Cast
- Lance Lewman — Narrator
- Holly Gilbert — Herself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Bill Murtagh — Himself - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Center
- Jim Green — Himself - NASA Planetary Science
- Todd Hoeksema — Himself - Stanford University
- Sarah Gibson — Herself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
- Scott McIntosh — Himself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
- Karel Schrjiver — Himself - Lockheed Martin
- W. Dean Pesnell — Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Luc Peterson — Himself - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Phillip Chamberlin — Himself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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