... Taken during an Eclipse, these pictures show what normally cannot be seen due to the brightness of the Sun. Pretty!

Oh, wow. Never seen pictures that detailed of it before.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot
The sun is not
A place where we can live
But here on Earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot
(The sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas
Aluminum, copper, iron, and many others.)
The sun is big
(If the sun were hollow, a million Earths would fit inside.
And yet, it is only a middle-sized star.)
The sun is far away
(about 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small)
But even when it's out of sight
The sun shines night and day

We need its heat
We need its light
We need it's energy
Without the sun without a doubt there'd be no you and me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

Very nice, there's a show on BBC at the moment called 'Wonders of the Solar System' which I'm really enjoying, kind of like a modern version of Cosmos, the presenter even reminds me of Carl Sagan.

Sounds good, will have to 'acquire' it so I can watch it too.

Very nice, there's a show on BBC at the moment called 'Wonders of the Solar System' which I'm really enjoying, kind of like a modern version of Cosmos, the presenter even reminds me of Carl Sagan.

SPACE with Sam Neil TBPH.

Also those pictures made me shudder, remembering Freelancer.
"Entering Solar Corona" BOOM! Out of nowhere.

Sam Neill's SPACE was terrifying.

Sam Neill's SPACE was terrifying.

TAKE THAT, EVOLUTIONISTS!

Oh, yeah, I remember seeing that as a kid... Like, ten years ago, that is. That shot with the 3D projectors is all I remember though.

Yup, Space was good, if terrifying, partly because a lot of the disasters he mentioned, whilst a genuine risk, are, quite literally, one in a million odds. Unfortunately, with something as big as Space, one in a millions aren't all that uncommon

The Wonders of the Solar System is presented by Brian Cox who, an interesting bit of trivia, was the keyboard player for D-ream before going to University. Very enjoyable program, and, whilst still honest about the risks we face, it's not quite as 'doom and gloom' as Space was

When I grow up I want to be cool like Brian Cox is.

Or Sam Neill

This Brian Cox dude, why does everybody keep talking about him?

Do you all have a crush on Cox?

You can't beat the odd bit of Cox...

When do you guys watch the Cox? Morning or evening?