FROM THE SUN TO THE STARS
Grades 9-12, Science; 60 minutes.
Offers a magazine-style overview of the science and educational outreach of the recently-completed International Heliophysical Year (2007-2009) through dynamic location sequences recorded in Barrow/Alaska, Addis Ababa/Ethiopia, Antarctica, Greenland, and across the United States. Participants include researchers active in the International Geophysical Year of 1957, and also planning future space missions. A major theme is “space weather” - how explosive events on the Sun, spreading out past Earth, may impact satellites and disrupt modern global civilization. SUN TO STARS explains why the ionosphere over the African continent is less well understood than anywhere else on Earth, and it also shows a special NSF/NASA/United Nations workshop introducing space weather to Ethiopian science teachers.

FROM THE SUN TO THE STARS is made possible, in part, by NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.