15 million degrees : a journey to the centre of the sun
Green, Lucie2016
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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? In this astonishing and enlightening adventure, you'll travel millions of miles from inside the Sun to its surface and to Earth, where the light at the end of its journey is allowing you to read right now. You'll discover how the Sun works (including what it sounds like), the latest research in solar physics and how a solar storm could threaten everything we know. And you'll meet the groundbreaking scientists, including the author, who pieced this extraordinary story together.
Main title:
15 million degrees : a journey to the centre of the sun / Lucie Green.
Author:
Green, Lucie, author
Imprint:
[London] Viking, 2016.©2016.
Collation:
296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes glossary.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Light: don't believe your eyes -- 2. Star power -- 3. Suns and daughters -- 4. The secret life of a photon -- 5. Sunspots -- 6. The spinning sun: the day the sun fought back -- 7.The dynamic sun -- 8. Eclipses and rainbows -- 9. Bon voyage -- 10. Space age -- 11. The flare necessities -- 12. coronal mass ejections -- 13. living in the atmosphere of the sun -- 14. what comes next?.
ISBN:
97806709221859780670922192 (paperback)
Dewey class:
523.7
Language:
English
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BRN:
306269