Forever Bound Earth And Sun Make Their Way Amid The Dust Lanes And Luminous Highways Of The Milky Way. The Heat Of Hot Plasma Shimmers Against The Blues And Greens Of A Living Planet. One A Roiling Gaseous Star Infused With Thermonuclear Energy. The Other A Cool Watery Ball Of Silicon And Iron. When We Gaze Upon The Sun We Glimpse Earths Fiery Birth Within The Limitless Sweep Of Cosmic Time.

This Is The Age Of The Mega Fire. With More People Living On Earth Than Ever Before We Are Seeing Catastrophic Blazes Harrowing Droughts And Devastating Deforestation. Are These The Products Of Man Or Are They All Part Of The Earths Natural Rhythm?

Heat Generated In The Suns Core Is Released In Towers Of Hot Electrified Gas Called Plasma That Break The Surface. Looping Magnetic Fields Break The Surface Too. When They Snap They Can Release Powerful Highspeed Waves Of Gas. A Billion Tons Of Plasma Racing Out Into Space.

Experience Some Of The Most Astonishingly Beautiful Images Captured By Astronauts Aboard The International Space Station. The Gentle Curvature Of Mother Earth Frames The Glimmering Lights Of Cities Dancing Aurorae And The Universe Zipping Around A Planet In Motion.

Revel In Some Of The Highest Resolution Images From The Hubble Space Telescope. Experience Anew The Detail In These Inspiring Images Snatched From Distant Galaxies Exploding Stars Brilliant Gas Clouds And Black Holes.

There Is A Strand In Contemporary Astronomy That Aims To Survey And Map The Universe On Larger And Larger Scales Going All The Way Back To The Beginning Of Time. In This Video Josh Frieman Director Of The Dark Energy Survey And Astrophysics Professor At The University Of Chicago Describes The Promise These Projects Hold For Understanding The Hidden Dynamic Of The Cosmos Including The Identity And Influence Of Dark Matter And Dark Energy And Whether Albert Einsteins Theories Are Correct.