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15 Million Degrees - A Journey to the Centre of the Sun (Paperback)
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15 Million Degrees - A Journey to the Centre of the Sun (Paperback)
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List price R384
Loot Price R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
You Save R65 (17%)
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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.
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