Solar Surveyors: Observing the Sun from Space

This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.

Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with the simple observations of classical astronomy and continuing through telescopic observations to the age of nuclear physics. He shows how we discovered the Sun’s basic characteristics – its distance, size, temperature and co...