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Uploaded by on Jun 17, 2008

This is the first in a series about our Solar System in art, literature, and religion, including some fantastic NASA and observatory pictures of the sun and its various satellites--planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc. At the center, of course, is our sun. The sun is a G2 star, a large ball of hydrogen (92%), helium (7%), and other trace elements, with a surface temperature of some 5,780 kelvin, and orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. As the earth's primary source of energy, the sun not only provides our light and heat, but also supports most animal and plant life on earth through photosynthesis. The diameter of the sun is about 100 times the size of earth's diameter, and astrophysicists say it would take 1 million earths to fill the sun. And yet our sun is considered to be only an average-sized star. There are larger in our own Milky Way, including Antares which has 700 times the diameter of the sun.

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  • Aquarius is linked to Uranus. But, this vid...is about the Sun. *confused*

    Whatever. I love the Sun.

  • The beginning of Aquarius uses the names of various objects in Sol's system (moon and Jupiter, for example), followed by "Let the Sun Shine In," and "Ain't no Sunshine When She's Gone." That's why I used it.

  • funny

  • Glad you liked it. Cheers, John

  • great video btw...

  • Thank you for the kind words...

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  • zigzags are funny

  • can i get those 6 49 min sec of my life back

  • • SandustanBrasov

    I had thinked a proposal of realisation to one universal vehicle, good on Earth but and in cosmos. The source of energy is a thermonuclear controlled reactor, and the traction is realized through a set of reactive electromagnetic motors. The realization of these, impose a revision and elucidation to some parts from the actual science, which is strangled of the theoretical physics with a series of metaphysical laws and principles.

  • SandustanBrasov

    The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe. You see the my project for thermonuclear controlled reactor.

  • @SnotRockets55 boring????

  • Wow i remember this song  when i was little... My mom was a hippie, so yeah...

    LOL Well anyways, great video bro.

  • The Sun FTW!! :D

  • Allahuakbar!!

  • great stuff!! truly amazing!

  • nasahistory.webnode(dot)com

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