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The Sun and the Solar System

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2013

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Big History: The Sun: Season 1 Episode 13, Mojgan Behmand Oct 2013

Big History: The Sun: Season 1 Episode 13, Mojgan Behmand

Mojgan Behmand

The Sun is our master and creator. It gives us our perception of time, controls our reality, and powers our lives. Big History sheds new light on our nearest star, revealing that ancient sun worship intersects with science, that our bodies are fine-tuned to the 24-hour day, and history is driven in unseen ways by the simple way we circle our star.

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Massive Star Forming Cores And Outflows Found By Analysis Of Astronomical Data, Hontas Farmer Jul 2013

Massive Star Forming Cores And Outflows Found By Analysis Of Astronomical Data, Hontas Farmer

Hontas F Farmer

Like gems hidden in mountains of sand, I have sifted through vast amounts of data which have been gathered by surveys covering wide areas of the sky at particular wavelengths, and found likely star forming cores, hints of circumstellar disk and outflows in regions of massive star formation. The procedural lesson from my masters thesis is that there are discoveries waiting to be made by comparing data sets gathered at different frequencies, and by conducting coordinated multi-spectral surveys of massive star forming regions.

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