Rose and Elliott look at the activity of the Sun, what the surface looks like and the importance of magnetic fields. From coronal mass ejections, to flares and sunspots, they discover all the weather you can expect on the Sun before looking at how it can be used to drive spacecraft with solar sails.

Find us at throughthetelescope.co.uk

Links relating to this episode:

Near-live images of the Sun and its features: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dashboard/

Solar cycles: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Solar_cycle_25_the_Sun_wakes_up

LightSail: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail

Music:

"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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