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What If A Massive Solar Flare Hit Us?

The sun is great. The sun is our friend. The sun allows us to keep on living. Basically everything you know and love you can thank the sun for. But the sun is a fickle beast. We are entirely at the suns mercy, and sometimes, our fiery mate kicks off out there. Click here to see more videos: https:/

Solar and lunar year

Ancient Greek scholars knew the difference between solar and lunar years. While the earth orbits the sun once in a year, the moon orbits the earth about 12 times. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Tobias Schultes/WENDEVARGA Translation & dubbing: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/TerraX

The Solar System's Boundaries | NASA Planetary Sciences

Discover what happens at the outer edges of our solar system, where the solar wind interacts with interstellar space. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a mission to study the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. Voyager 1 and 2 have provided some direct measurements f

ScienceCasts: Solar Minimum is Coming

Intense solar activity such as sunspots and solar flares subsides during solar minimum, but that doesn’t mean the sun becomes dull. Solar activity simply changes form. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.

The Nebra sky disk

The Nebra sky disk is the world's oldest known concrete representation of astronomical phenomena and is more than 3600 years old. It shows a crescent moon, the full moon - sometimes interpreted as the sun - and a total of 32 stars. Author: ZDF/Terra X/SPIEGEL TV/Christopher Gerisch/Tilman Remme/Rei

Total Solar Eclipse Animation

Solar eclipses result from the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth. Total solar eclipses — in which the Sun is completely blocked by the Moon — are a spectacular and rare sight to witness. In this animation adapted from NOVA, see why solar eclipses occur and observe a simulated total eclipse. This