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The Sun – our steady, reliable companion – tells a very different story up close
Created using footage captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft between 2011 and 2015, Sun is a mesmerising, perspective-shaking glimpse at Earth’s life-giving star. While seemingly immutable in the daytime sky, a closer look at the Sun reveals a dynamic and unpredictable body, blotted with sunspots and regularly spewing violent plasma eruptions far into interplanetary space.
Director: Michael König
Music: Murcof
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Film and visual culture
Our world has very different contours when a millimetre is blown up to a full screen
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Astronomy
The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky
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Knowledge
Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow
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Physics
Groundbreaking visualisations show how the world of the nucleus gives rise to our own
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Earth science and climate
There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare?
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Physics
To change the way you see the Moon, view it from the Sun’s perspective
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Ecology and environmental sciences
GPS tracking reveals stunning insights into the patterns of migratory birds
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Space exploration
The rarely told story of the fruit flies, primates and canines that preceded us in space
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Neuroscience
This intricate map of a fruit fly brain could signal a revolution in neuroscience
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