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Attack of the Sun. Massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away... an angry sun vents its rage. Dark regions, called sunspots, appeared unexpectedly on its surface... a sign of rising tension within. It had been three and a half years since the sun last erupted in fury...at the peak of an 11-year cycle of solar flare-ups.

Back then, we got ready for it... by shutting down satellites that were vulnerable to high levels of radiation. But no one expected this. In what should have been a low point in solar activity, the sun erupted in a series of massive explosions, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.

Episode 11 - Attack of the Sun


Go to Cosmic Journeys Home or watch other episodes:

Episode 01 - Birth of a Black Hole
Episode 02 - The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
Episode 03 - The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
Episode 04 - When Will Time End?
Episode 05 - How Large is the Universe?
Episode 06 - Mysteries of a Dark Universe
Episode 07 - The Riddle of AntiMatter
Episode 08 - The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
Episode 09 - Mars: World That Never Was
Episode 10 - Crashing into the Moon
Episode 11 - Attack of the Sun
Episode 12 - Birth of the Moon
Episode 13 - Saturn's Mysterious Moons
Episode 14 - Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
Episode 15 - Is the Universe Infinite?
Episode 16 - Venus: Death of a Planet
Episode 17 - Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Episode 18 - Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight
Episode 19 - The Search For Earth-Like Planets
Episode 20 - Super Hurricanes and Typhoons
Episode 21 - Hubble Space-Shattering Discoveries
Episode 22 - Voyager Journey to the Stars
Episode 23 - Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms
Episode 24 - Earth in 1000 Years
Episode 25 - Supervolcanoes
Episode 26 - Fate of Antarctica
Episode 27 - Life: Destiny or Chance?
Episode 28 - Interstellar Flight
Episode 29 - Hubble: Universe in Motion
Episode 30 - Solar Superstorms