DC Ultimate Space Collection - Savage Sun (DC) (1999)

Part of the Discovery Channel natural history documentary series. This volume explains the workings of the sun, the body at the centre of the solar system, with a core heat of 30 million degrees. Savage Sun reveals the most spectacular images of the sun ever gathered, captured from many spacecraft and observatories including the Big Bear Solar Observatory, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite. It is the largest body in our solar system. Internal temperatures can reach millions of degrees Celsius and surface explosions leap tens of thousands of kilometers into space. It is the most awe inspiring and fearsome body in our solar system, yet, without it, life on earth could not exist. Viewers will come away with a greater appreciation of this mighty body and the way it influences every aspect of life on earth. Get launched on an exploration of incredible power, amazing energy, and fantastic forces. Let “Savage Sun” shed light on the meaning of distant observations and illuminate other secrets of the sun. Find out how new technology is putting us on the surface of our nearest star, and into its interior. Learn how the sun fuels all life on earth and explore promising developments by scientists searching for a safer, cleaner, inexhaustible energy source for the future powered by the brilliant sun.

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