Star

S1, E5: It was the Sun as no other human being had ever seen it before.The astronauts on board Skylab saw the blindingly bright disk, clearly visible, floating in the blackness of space. For millennia humans have always seen our star through the Earth’s atmosphere, but the Space Age has given us a new perspective that has revealed the many faces of the Sun and forced us to redefine it.We have now seen it in X-rays, ultraviolet/visible light, heat, and radio. But we have also discovered that the planets orbit inside the Sun. Star reveals the recently discovered inner secrets of this colossal engine that runs like clockwork, and shows how the planets struggle against the Sun’s invisible influence: the solar wind.