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.

Top 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