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After all these years, we think we know the Sun. It is familiar and ever-present, central to human culture. It's so familiar that most of us hardly look at it and so brilliant that we cannot. All of us know what the Sun looks like...or do we? The Sun rules the weather, feeds the plants, warms the Earth. Wars have been started and stopped because of events on the Sun; emperors and kings have been crowned and crushed in its light. As far back as you can go in history, the Sun sits at the centre of the human story. Food, rhythm, energy, light. These practical gifts have sometimes morphed into supernatural ones, as the cycles in the skies have provided hints and hopes of order and divinity in the universe. The Sun has been the centre around which our life on Earth revolves. "The Sun" presents the Sun in a whole new light. The story of our Sun is told not just by the daylight, but by the night sky; not just by its full brilliance but also its reflected, distorted, and bent light; and not just from Earth, but from the edge of the solar system.
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Michael Carlowicz is a science writer and author of Storms from the Sun: The Emerging Science of Space Weather (The Joseph Henry Press, 2002). He is currently a science writer and editor for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Steele Hill has served as the media specialist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission since its first year of operation in 1996. Through his work at NASA, he is more familiar with the images from SOHO and other solar missions than anyone on the planet.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This a book primarily of spectacular images, supported by an interesting and accessible commentary, that will appeal to all ages, scientists and non-scientists alike - and change the way they think about the Sun for ever!
The amazing pictures lead us through sunsets, weather effects and aurora, as witnessed form the Earth's surface, to the more recent spectacular images we now have from satellites and space stations. The sheer scale of the weather activity on the Sun's surface is breathtaking.
From historical observations to future plans of how we might harness light to propel our spacecraft to study more distant stars, it is a book that combines science with art and a book that you will be drawn to pick up again and again!
The amazing pictures lead us through sunsets, weather effects and aurora, as witnessed form the Earth's surface, to the more recent spectacular images we now have from satellites and space stations. The sheer scale of the weather activity on the Sun's surface is breathtaking.
From historical observations to future plans of how we might harness light to propel our spacecraft to study more distant stars, it is a book that combines science with art and a book that you will be drawn to pick up again and again!
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful images
25 July 2006
Format:Hardcover
That book is about the sun, but the sun is so much more than just the sun. The sun gives us amazing Northern Lights, sparkling solar coronas, mysterious green flashes, wonderful halos, pillars and so on, and so on. The book has inspiring pictures of all these phenomenas. One also will see the pictures of prominences and flares. I really recommend that awesome book.
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
You will be frightened
10 Mar 2007
Format:Hardcover
Ever wonder about the big glowing thing above you that seems to be all over the place all the time during the day? Wonder no more. Holy @#%*!! Why isn't everyone flipping out at how amazing the sun is!? And that we have mind blowingly close, beautiful, evil, haunting pictures of it?! Seriously, there is this thing that's setting off its own arsenal of countless numbers of hydrogen bombs all at once and on itself, and we're constantly spinning around it, and there is a book that give you a beyond crazy close look at it. If this book had come out 100 years ago it would be hailed as the most amazing thing mankind had ever seen. Now it just sort of sits on a bookshelf in the astronomy section. Get with it people, and go stare at the sun.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Awesome Pictures
7 July 2006
Format:Hardcover
This little book has amazing pictures of the Sun. Great little conversation piece for the coffee table...especially if you've worked on some of the missions that took the pictures.
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