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serenely beautiful from 93 million miles

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away the Sun is actually a violently

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energetic system so complex the numerous

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scientists like dr. Tom Duvall from

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are

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dedicating their careers to its study

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working at the kid feat National

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Observatory outside Tucson Arizona dr.

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Duval and his colleagues use a variety

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this mcmath instrument on Kitt Peak is

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the largest solar telescope in the world

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an 81 inch mirror on its roof tracks the

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sun's daily passage sending a beam down

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the shaft extending 300 feet below

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the result is a unique high-resolution

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image of the Sun about two-and-a-half

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feet in diameter dr. Duval hopes to get

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at the causes of solar activity by

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determining what's going on in the sun's

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interior his ultimate goal to predict

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some of the phenomena associated with

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solar activity that are troublesome to

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us here on earth most of dr. Duval's

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work is done in this 81 foot high solar

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vacuum telescope again mirrors are used

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to reflect an image of the Sun down into

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the instruments control room here a

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daily map of magnetic phenomena on the

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sun's surface is produced nearly all

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forms of solar activity from some spots

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the flares create magnetic fields if

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these disturbances are strong enough

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Communications on earth can be disrupted

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there may even be a relationship between

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at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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in Huntsville Alabama Richard Hoover an

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astrophysicist studies the Sun with

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x-ray telescopes this mirror was part of

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an instrument used on Skylab to produce

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solar images today Hoover and scientists

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from Stanford University are working

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with the new generation of x-ray

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telescopes and they're producing

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phenomenally high resolution images

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reveal in solar turbulence has never

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launched in 1980 the 5,500 pounds solar

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maximum spacecraft in Congress to

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produce information about the center

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since being repaired I NASA passed

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around its instruments encroaching on

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your door toc reports and seller max is

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dead on the Sun when the shuttle lives

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over in October 1990 it will carry its

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cargo bay another spacecraft that will

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take a president and look at the Sun

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developed by NASA and the European Space

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Agency Ulysses will fly over the solar

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poles regions of the Sun which may hold

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important clues about its nature Ulysses

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five-year journey of exploration

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together with ceramics and discoveries

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being made by NASA scientists around the

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country will greatly enhance our