Secrets of the Sun

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.

• Duncan CoppDirector

• Lance LewmanNarrator
• Holly GilbertHerself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Bill MurtaghHimself - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Center
• Jim GreenHimself - NASA Planetary Science
• Todd HoeksemaHimself - Stanford University
• Sarah GibsonHerself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
• Scott McIntoshHimself - National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
• Karel SchrjiverHimself - Lockheed Martin
• W. Dean PesnellHimself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Luc PetersonHimself - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Phillip ChamberlinHimself - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center