This Second Edition of Sun, Earth and Sky updates the popular text
by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries
made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. Their
instruments have used sound waves to peer deep into the Sun's inner
regions and measure the temperature of its central nuclear reactor,
and extended our gaze far from the visible Sun to record energetic
outbursts that threaten Earth. Breakthrough observations with the
underground Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are also included, which
explain the new physics of ghostly neutrinos and solve the
problematic mismatch between the predicted and observed amounts of
solar neutrinos. This new edition of Sun, Earth and Sky also
describes our recent understanding of how the Sun's outer
atmosphere is heated to a million degrees, and just where the Sun's
continuous winds come from. As humans we are more intimately linked
with our life-sustaining Sun than with any other astronomical
object, and the new edition therefore provides modern
interpretations of ozone depletion and global warming that are
related to both the Sun and to human activities. introduces the Sun
and its physics, and describes all aspects of the Sun's interaction
with us on Earth.
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