A Journey to the Centre of the Sun
Lucie Green takes us on a journey from the centre of the sun to planet earth in a run-down of the latest solar physics research. 110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar system. Light takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds of thousands of years.
What is going on in there? What are light and heat? How does the Sun produce them and how on earth did scientists discover this?
Join Lucie Green for an enlightening talk, taking you from inside the Sun to its surface and to Earth, to discover how the Sun works, how a solar storm can threaten the modern technology that society relies on and more of the latest research in solar physics.
Lucie Green is a Professor of Physics based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL's Department of Space and Climate Physics.
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