radiation produced to reach the sun's surface. the temperature there is $6000.00 degrees celsius for a cooler than the sun's atmosphere at a 1000000 degrees the corona can be seen with the naked eye during a total eclipse. our sun has been shining bright for around 4 and a half 1000000000 years despite its spectacular characteristics it's just another normal star like countless others in the milky way. once its hydrogen has completely burned out the sun will expand and become what's known as a red giant by then it will of turned earth into a dead planet. since time immemorial human beings have understood the key role played by our sun it provides the earth with heat and light the sun the rich diversity of life on earth would never have developed. different peoples throughout human history have worshipped the sun and brought sacrificial gifts to win its favor. the sun also marks the progression from morning till night its course is a more accurate measure of days than the moon and of the seasons. in this way would serve humanity as

because it's taking photographs of the sun and the sun is really bright, solar orbiter is not going asg a bit further back, 42 million kilometres away. and there it will use telescopes to take pictures through the heat shield, a heat shield which is partially made of baked animal bones. it's there to help solar orbiter withstand temperatures of up to 600 celsius. that is 1,112 farenheit. it's very important to keep solar orbiter and the instruments as clean as possible, and when there's dust on the lenses of the telescopes, when you expose that to the sun it effectively bakes those particles onto the lenses. once you start doing that you are losing science, so it's essential to keep those instruments as clean as possible. by measuring and capturing images at the same time, solar orbiter is really going to give us a good understanding of how the sun behaves, and how that can affect the technology we use here on earth. in today's world, with all our technology, a coronal mass ejection happens on the sun and affects us here on earth. it's going to have an impact on things like satellites,

the sun has poles. i didn't know that and tell us more about these polls why is it important to locate them. so you know just like the air send all planets and the sun is a huge sphere. that is turning its rotating around itsts center so it does have pulled the north pole and the south pole. and we have never fleww above them with the telescope so this is the first time so this is why we want to go to see them. it's just likeke the e earth's boulders. as the post of the errors they are much different from thehe rest of the planets. and we didn't know that before going there. so it's's kinind oa new w exploratioion we want to . and i'm sorry to the region a region that we have never seen bebefore. absoluty amazing- you must feel like- a great pioneer the universe with what you have right now. well of my self. uniquely so we are thousands of engineers and s scientists workining coming north on the mission and w will work in the future. soo we are yeah we are modern explorers and pioneers. are discovering

so this mission will tell us about the sun...ally beautiful effect, but also it can be really damaging for satellite infrastructure and indeed, seven some of the infrastructure on the ground. so this mission is so important to space science and two space missions, but it is also very important to our everyday lives. give us a sense then, of the technical challenges involved in getting ourselves, you know, across several years getting ourselves, you know, across several yea rs into getting ourselves, you know, across several years into this precise position in relation to the sun. and so hot, and surviving that... yeah, exactly. it is quite a long way. so nearly 1 exactly. it is quite a long way. so nearly1 million miles to get to the sun and we are going about three quarters of the way there. from that position, we think we are getting the best vantage point and also, whilst we still have the capability to resist some of those tremendous temperatures that will be there, so we estimate temperatures of up to about 550 degrees, so t

a new space probe has lifted off on its quest to study the sun from close quarters.european space agency and nasa mission and was assembled in the uk. it will study the inner workings of our star in unprecedented detail, and help us to better understand how it affects us here on earth. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle has more. three, two, one, zero... and lift off! blasting off — a mission that's been 20 years in the making. their spacecraft called solar 0rbiter on its way to the sun. everything is looking good. it's jam—packed with instruments, and will take images from closer to our star than any spacecraft has before, but it will be operating in an extreme environment. the instruments on—boa rd the spacecraft incredibly sensitive. and then to put it close to the sun, it's really, really difficult and it's quite nerve—racking when you send your delicate little instrument on the top of a rocket towards the sun, and you just hope that it's going to be working. at the royal astronomical society, records of our sun go back hundreds of years, charting huge sol

the spacecraft called solar orbiter on its way to the sun.jam-packed with instruments and will take images from closer to our star than any spacecraft has before. but it will be operating in an extreme environmen >> the instruments on board the spacecraft are incredibly sensitive. and then to put it close to the sun, it's really, really difficult. and it's quite nerve-wracking when youend your delicate little instruments on the top of a rocket towards the sun and you just hope that it's going to be working. >> at the royal astronomical society, records of our sun go huge solarrms.of years, charting now, these would have had little effect on us in the w 1800'sn these notes were written. today, though, they'd wreakck havoc, kg out communication and navigation satellites andausing power failures. the hope is that solar orbiter could help us to betternd unders and eventually predict them. solar orbiter will give us a new view of the sun, and will let us see its poles for the very first time. scientists say this coul be a game changer. >> there's

the spacecraft solar orbiter on its way to the sun.s and will take images from closer to ourstarthan any spacecraft has before. but it will be operating in an extreme environment. the instruments on board the spacecraft are incredibly sensitive. and then to put it close to the sun, it's really, really difficult, and it's quite nerve—racking when you send your delicate little instrument on the top of a rocket towards the sun, and you just hope that it's going to be working. at the royal astronomical society records of our sun go back hundreds of years, charting huge solar storms. now these would have had little effect on us in the 1800s when these notes were written. today though they'd wreak havoc, knocking out communication and navigation satellites, and causing power failures. the hope is though that solar orbiter could help us to better understand and eventually predict them. solar orbiter will give us a new view of the sun and will let us see its poles for the very first time. scientists say this could be a game changer. there's so

but the solar orbit so we'll have to get very close to the sun to gather the necessary data. that's the difficulty with the solar orbiter the satellite will be fried like a sausage i grill it won't get woman cuz the air around it is hot it'll get grilled directly by the radiation call it. each time it approaches the sun and it's circular past the solar all but it will be subjected to have a 10 times the radiation that strikes satellites and earth's orbit no electronics can withstand that that's why the sensitive measuring devices have to be protected by he chilled the orbiter's out a layer will heat up to over $500.00 degrees celsius surprisingly it's made of a black material. the black layer will absorb the enormous heat coming from the sun protecting the sensitive equipment during the observations. in them shots and if something happens to the black material the area beneath it wouldn't heat up any more intensely than the areas around it if you use say a mirrored surface instead on a crack appeared in the mirror it would get especially hot that high schools want to break. t

incredible images of the sun. its turbulent surface, revealed in fiery detail.er. it's jam—packed with instruments and will take images from closer to the sun than any spacecraft has before. temperatures will reach 500 degrees, which has meant using some unexpected materials. obviously it gets extremely hot and we had to develop special technologies and coatings for the spacecraft, just because the environment‘s going to be so hostile. in fact, one of the coatings we had to develop is based on using baked animal bones and that's at the front of the heat shield, to stop it from getting too hot. solar orbiter has a long and difficult journey ahead. after leaving the earth it will take about two years to get into prime position, orbiting closer than the planet mercury to the sun. but every time the spacecraft passes behind our star, it will lose contact for weeks and if anything goes wrong it could be burned to a crisp. gradually, though, the spacecraft will lift its position, letting us see the sun's poles for the very first time. what i love is that you can see t

incredible images of the sun, it's turbulent surface revealed in fiery detail.ed with instruments and will take images from closer to the sun then any spacecraft has before. temperatures will reach 500 degrees which has meant using of unexpected materials. obviously it gets extremely hot. we had to develop special technologies and coatings for the spacecraft because the environment is going to be so hostile. one of the coatings we had to develop was based on baked animal bones and that is at the front of the heat shield to stop it from getting too hot. solar orbiter has a long and difficult journey ahead. after leaving the earth, it will take about two years to get into prime position, orbiting closer than the planet mercury to the sun, but every time the spacecraft passes behind our star, it will lose contact for weeks — and if anything goes wrong, it could be burned to a crisp. but gradually the spacecraft will lift its position, letting us see the sun's poles for the first time. what i love is that you can see the fantastic structure on the site here, a struc

it is incredible really because the sun is so important.ystem and yet there's so much we don't know about it. so this mission will give us unprecedented detail on the surface of the sun, and it will also tell us about the magnetic field. if you put those together, you can start to understand when and how these big eruptions happen from the sun's surface. so these are the things that give rise to aurora, you know, a really beautiful effect, but also it can be really damaging for satellite infrastructure and indeed, some of the infrastructure on the ground. so this mission is so important to space science and to space missions, but it is also very important to our everyday lives. give us a sense then, of the technical challenges involved in getting ourselves, you know, across several years into this precise position in relation to the sun. and so hot, and surviving that... yeah, yeah, exactly. it is quite a long way. so nearly 100 million miles to get to the sun and we are going about three quarters of the way there. from that position, we th

orbiting closer than t planet mercury to the sun.s behind our star, it will lose contact for weeks. if anything goest wrong,uld be burnt to a crisp. gradually, though, the spacecft will lift its position, letting us see the sun's poles for the very first time. >> what i love is that you can the side here.stic lofted up into the atmosphere of the sun. we call that a prominence. reporterat the royal astronomical society, records reveal dramatic activity which can impact us. it's called space weather and can knock outio navig and communication satellites and cause power failures. >> in the same ways we have terrestrial weather in the ather in the atmosphee have of the sun in which we live. we are excited about getting up close and personal witht he sun so tha can understand the origins of the space. ♪[music] >> california iwn as the golden state. full of sunshine, glamour and opportunity. there's no ignoring the homeless crisis there. in is the city of oakland, 4,000 people sleep on the street every night. one wealthy businessman tried

stay with us on bbc news, still to come: heading for the sun.anned craft into the burning heart of our solar system. there is mr mandela, mr nelson mandela, a free man taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader, aya tyler camino, has said he has passed a death sentence on said he has passed a death sentence on salman said he has passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. —— ayatollah khomenei. the people of haiti have flocked to church to give ousting for the —— thanks for the ousting of the former president, baby doc. because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a secure box. he was driven away ina secure box. he was driven away in a horsebox the thieves had brought with them. they're stepped down from the plane a figure in morning. elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and all her other realms and territories, head of the commonwealth, defendant of the faith. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: quarantine squads in china are

orbiting closer than the planet mercury to the sun.very time the spacecraft passes behind our star, it will lose contact fks w if anything goes wrong, it could be burnt to a crisp. gradually, though, the spacecft will lift its position, letting us see the sun's poles for the very first time. >> what i love is that you can see this fantastic structure on the side here. sort of a structure that's lofted up into the atmosphere of the sun. we call that a prominence. reporter: at the royal astronecical society,ds reveal dramatic activity which can impact us. it's called space weather and can knock out navigation and communication sateites and cause power failures. >> in the same ws we have w terrestriather in the earth's atmosphere, we have h ace weather in the atmosphere of the sun in wh live. we are excited about getting up close and personal with the sun so that wean understand the origins of the space. ♪[music] >> california is known as the golden state. fullf sunshine, glamour and opportunity. there's no ignoring the homeless crisis th

has been launched on an unprecedented mission to the sun we find out what scientists. cover about a solar system star. but 1st health authorities in china say more people have fallen victim to the corona virus this is the death toll has exceeded 900 and that more than 40000 cases of the virus are now reported across the country that after thousands of people were due to disembark from a cruise ship in hong kong after a 4 day quarantine resulted in passengers testing negative for the virus another cruise ship of japan remains in poland teen with over 100 confirmed cases. joining me now from beijing is correspondent. today workers are returning to their offices after the extended you know new year holidays what's the turnout like on lots of people going back to work. many shops remain closed many small businesses remain closed many people are not yet back in the cities where they work and many companies have also os they have people there their employees not to come back to the office yet but if they can to just work remotely from home. chinese businesses and the economy

the spacecraft, called solar orbiter, on its way to the sun.ment. the instruments on—board the spacecraft are incredibly sensitive. and then to put it close to the sun — it's really, really difficult. and it's quite nerve—racking when you send your delicate little instrument on the top of a rocket towards the sun! you just hope that it's going to be working. at the royal astronomical society, records of our sun go back hundreds of years, charting huge solar storms. these would have had little effects on us in the 1800s — when these notes were written — today, though, they'd wreak havoc. knocking out communications and navigations satellites, and causing power failures. the hope is, though, that solar orbiter can help us to better understand — and eventually — predict them. solar orbiter will give us a new view of the sun, and will let us see its poles for the very first time. scientists say this could be a game changer. there's so much that we don't understand about the interior of the sun, how the energy leaks out, how magnetic fields play an

but the solar orbit so we'll have to get very close to the sun to gather the necessary data. we have a couple so that's the difficulty with the solar orbiter the satellite will be fried like a sausage on a grill it won't get woman because the air around it is hot it'll get grilled directly by the radiation. each time it approaches the sun and it's circular path the solar all but it will be subjected to have a 10 times the radiation that strikes satellites and earth's orbit no electronics can withstand that that's why the sensitive measuring devices have to be protected by heat shield the orbiter's outer layer will heat up to over $500.00 degrees celsius surprisingly it's made of a black material. the black layer will absorb the enormous heat coming from the sun protecting the sensitive equipment during the observations. in them shots and if something happens to the black material the area beneath it wouldn't heat up any more intensely than the areas around it if you use say a mirrored surface and stand on a crack appeared in the mirror it would get especially hot the high sch

it is towards the sun.reason for that, the scientists want to study the sun's weather patterns. they want to know what happens when the sun injects billions of matter particles affecting live here on earth. the spacecraft will be dispatch on an atlas rocket. gill six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. and liftoff. solar orbiter, an international collaboration to give us new energies and better understanding of our life—giving staff. —— star. understanding of our life-giving staff. -- star. the rocket itself will get towards the sun and get within 26 million miles of the sun's surface. that counts as close. closer than the planet mercury where temperatures are searing. to survive, the probe will have to work from behind a large titanium shield. we will keep an eye on that rocket as it heads towards the sun. we can now speak to award winning journalist and producer kj matthews who's been covering and tweeting the oscars all evening. kj, how are you? what has been a highlight so far? the director bring john w

the spacecraft, called solar orbiter, on its way to the sun.ts on—board the spacecraft are incredibly sensitive. and then to put it close to the sun — it's really, really difficult. and it's quite nerve—racking when you send your delicate little instrument on the top of a rocket towards the sun! you just hope that it's going to be working. at the royal astronomical society, records of our sun go back hundreds of years, charting huge solar storms. these would have had little effects on us in the 1800s — when these notes were written — today, though, they'd wreak havoc. knocking out communications and navigations satellites, and causing power failures. the hope is, though, that solar orbiter can help us to better understand — and eventually — predict them. solar orbiter will give us a new view of the sun, and will let us see its poles for the very first time. scientists say this could be a game changer. there's so much that we don't understand about the interior of the sun, how the energy leaks out, how magnetic fields play an important role. i t

me. ♪ karen sees the silver sun >> karen sees the silver sun, walk away and watch it shine.> reporter: did you say, karen, do you like that song? >> i may well. >> reporter: the memoir is called "break shot." >> a lot of pool ball games start with a break shot. you just smack that triangle of balls and they go off in all different directions. but what that refers to is that there was a moment in my life and my family's life and in the popular culture and we just jumped the tracks all at once. >> reporter: what happened? >> you know, my father's alcoholism i think reached a peak, and that happened, you know, that led to my folks breaking up. and i was i think a very sensitive kid and was away at school, deeply unhappy. so i left school and went to a psychiatric hospital in boston called mclane and spent ten months there. >> reporter: a turbulent time for a very young james taylor, but a remarkably creative one. pain and longing finding its way into his songs. ♪ just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone ♪ >> reporter: before he was 22 heed been signed by the beatle

sun the sun the *. mothers. the lot 1. when i 1st heard it i was like all this is like like the old men you know like old men and women singing this song and you know where to where the new haven't guard of revolutionary music but no i do think it said if you look at the history of that song in there things pretty cool good it did come out as one of our songs that fits anybody's trouble because he's as it says the song of international socialism all communism left wing why do you have. the birthplace of the internacional a is paris site of the recent yellow vests protests some 150 years ago the poet organ wrote internazionale for the 871 worker uprising. that rebellion was suppressed but the song lives on. from france the internacional a journey to russia where it again stirred the hearts of workers. after the communists seize power into nazionale served as an anthem for the soviet union. it was also played at official ceremonies and other soviet republics. cause indeed it was a song of oppression of suppression it was for

the spacecraft solar orbiter on its way to the sun.rthan any spacecraft has before. but it will be operating in an extreme environment. the instruments on board the spacecraft are incredibly sensitive. and then to put it close to the sun, it's really, really difficult, and it's quite nerve—racking when you send your delicate little instrument on the top of a rocket towards the sun, and you just hope that it's going to be working. at the royal astronomical society, records of our sun go back hundreds of years, charting huge solar storms. now, these would have had little effect on us in the 1800s when these notes were written. today, though, they'd wreak havoc, knocking out communication and navigation satellites, and causing power failures. the hope is, though, that solar orbiter could help us to better understand and eventually predict them. solar orbiter will give us a new view of the sun and will let us see its poles for the very first time. scientists say this could be a game—changer. there's so much we don't understand about the in

astronomers have identified over 4100 planets orbiting distant suns exoplanets. the nearest known star to the sun proxima centauri is orbited by a planet called proximo be within the habitable zone that means water could exist as liquid on its surface. most earth like in terms of size and surface temperature teagarden be is high on the list of potentially habitable exoplanets and then there are planetary systems like trappist one this stars orbited by 7 planets of which at least 3 are in the habitable zone. some bodies in our own solar system could also potentially support life such as the icy moons of the gas giants jupiter and saturn they're outside the sun's habitable zone but below their surfaces our oceans that could be home to life protected by an icy crust. if outlet is right why awfully glad if i. do you have a question about science if you do send it to us as a video text or force mail if we answer it on the show we'll send you a little surprise as a thank you so come on just ask if you can find us at d w dot com slash science on twitter at d w underscor

china's sun yang has today been banned for eight years after missing a doping test in 2018.should end a long running saga that's seen podium boycotts, ugly verbal altercations and swimming's own governing body caught up in it too. john watson will tell us more in a second but first let's remind you how we go to this point. sun yang was initally banned for three months for taking a banned substance in 2014, which some felt was lenient. he returned to the pool to win a heap of medals including gold at rio 2016. two years later, he missed an out of competition drugs test and got involved in an argument with officials but a few months later in january 2019, fina, swimming's world governing body, cleared him of any wrongdoing. the world anti doping agency appealed that decision to the court of arbitration for sport, and upheld the appeal, with sun being handed an eight years suspension. john watson's been following the story today. how significant is this? hugely significant when you consider that he is chained's big sporting superstar, he was hoping to return to the tokyo olympi

have gone up in brazil and the sun was always a man since the portuguese words 1st sun it's masculine when i move to germany as a 10 year old i want to say to him on t.v. network change how i see the world because into a month in the sun this family in the. same in the now but the side of a good listener so i read a ponytail instead of a deep voice extroverted guy seemed absolutely incredible. i realized how language shapes and thinking how definitions are not only mental in maine just put out a whole perception of the role. inside save my life and was one of the reasons i became a journalist i'm a storyteller and i use my words to help with intercultural on this time because my name is there when i'm away and i work and to top it was. because d.w. newsline from politics shaken over a scandal involving the far right conservative and liberal parties on the huge pressure after breaking out decades long term against work from the far right causes. them a chance and i'm kind of magical actually for some odd different visits angola economic ties. not just the death toll from the corona vir

a new mission is set to launch next week that will reveal the sun as never seen before. nasa mission and was assembled in the uk. it's been said to be the country's most important mission for a generation. rebecca morelle has more. incredible images of the sign, it's turbulent surface revealed and fiery detail. the view of our star is about to get much better. this is solar 0rbiter, it is jam—packed with instruments and will take images from closer to the sun then any spacecraft has before. temperatures will reach 500 degrees which means the use of unexpected materials. obviously it gets extremely hot. we had to develop special technologies and coatings for the spacecraft because the environment is going to be so hostile. one of the coatings we had to develop was based on eight animal bones and that is at the front of the heat shield to stop it from getting too hot. solar 0rbiter has a long and difficult journey ahead. after leaving the earth, it will take about two years to get into prime position, orbiting closer than the planet mercury to the sun but every time the sp

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