A revealing portrait of our closest star - the sun. Responsible for all life on Earth, the sun has always been worshipped. In the Stone Age, monuments were built to its constancy and predictability. New ways of observing the sun are revealing another side to it - a dark and violent side of turbulent storms and huge explosions. As scientists learn to understand the forces that drive it, they are also trying to control its power. If we could harness the sun's power output for a single second it would supply the world's demands for the next million years.

Andrew Lincoln

Narrator

• John LynchExecutive Producer

First aired

May 2, 2016

Last aired

May 2, 2016

Status

Returning Series

Original language

English

Episodes

1

• Season 11 episode · 2016