Liftoff 6: The Sun

This week, Stephen and Jason answer some burning questions about the sun.

This week, Stephen and Jason answer some burning questions about the sun.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:
Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
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Links and Show Notes

image via NASA

The Incomparable | Let's Hear It for Botanists (Episode 268) GROUND CONTROL (APOLLO ARCHIVE) 4K - YouTube NASA projects related to The Martian, complied by Liftoff listener Andrew NASA TechPort - Home Page Weird star: Strange dips in brightness are a bit baffling. Dyson sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Search For Extraterrestrial Civilizations With Large Energy Supplies (PDF) New Horizons: First Pluto journal paper discusses dwarf planet's origins - BBC News The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons DSCOVR: Daily pictures of the Earth from space. DSCOVR::EPIC::Earth Polychromatic Camera Image: The sun Image: The sun's zones Total Solar Eclipse - 14th November 2012 - philhart They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma) - YouTube The Sunspot Cycle - NASA/Marshall Solar Physics Image: Raining loops of plasma March 1989 geomagnetic storm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia TMBG-Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas) original version lyrics - YouTube