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Description of  Solar Surveyors: Observing the Sun from Space (Springer Praxis Books)

This is the story of humankinds quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun. Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with the simple observations of classical astronomy and continuing through telescopic observations to the age of nuclear physics. He shows how we discovered the Suns basic characteristics its distance, size, temperature and composition and then describes how, with evermore sophisticated instruments, we have learned about the Suns enormous energy output, its atmosphere and the explosive eruptions that blast clouds of magnetized gas and high-energy particles toward our world. Read more