EPISODE · Feb 28, 2020 · 46 MIN
59: Living With A Star
from syzygy · host Chris Stewart
Come see us live at the Northern Podcast Festival in Hull, 16 MayHelp us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypodSyzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypodThings we talked about in this episode:Come to Syzygy live, 16 May, at the Northern Podcast FestivalDaniel K. Inouye Solar TelescopeStunning images of the Sun’s surfaceSolar coronaHeliosphereESA’s Solar OrbiterVideo of the Solar Orbiter’s missionParker Solar Probe missionSun’s magnetic poles about to flip
What this episode covers
The Sun — so close, we can almost touch it. (Don't, that would be bad.) Yet astronomers have so much to learn about our nearest star. Just a few weeks ago, the ESA Solar Orbiter launched, off on a mission to orbit the sun (hence the name) and catch a good look at the Sun's poles for the first time. It joins the Parker Solar Probe, which is lining up to take some deep dives nice and close to the Sun. And to top it all off, the world's largest ground-based solar observatory, the Daniel K. Inouye Telescope, just took some a-maz-ing images of the Sun's surface.
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