What is the Sun Made Of? - Christmas Lectures with James Jackson

What is the sun made of? And can the answers we find there help us figure out what' deep inside our own planet - Earth?
Watch the full first lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1995/planet-earth-an-explorers-guide/on-the-edge-of-the-world?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

James Jackson gave the 1995 Christmas Lectures "Planet Earth: An Explorer's Guide" about the inner workings of planet Earth.

The first lecture "On the Edge of the World", where this clip is from, looks into the indirect methods and tools we have at our disposal to work out what our planet is made of.

Watch the full series:
https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1995/planet-earth-an-explorers-guide?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

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