Space Talk: Introduction to Science of the Sun
The Sun is the closest star to the Earth, and the only star that we can see in great detail. Studying the Sun over centuries has taught us how other stars work, and in recent years, solar study has helped inform us about possible threats to our modern technical civilization through space weather events.
Dr. Alphonse Sterling is an astrophysicist specializing in solar physics at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, will present this exciting public lecture on Wednesday 14 August at 12:00 in the SANSA Space Weather Centre in Hermanus and live on the SANSA Youtube channel.
WHEN: Wednesday 14 August
TIME: 12:00
WHERE: SANSA Space Weather Centre in Hermanus (Western Cape)
Live on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@SASpaceAgency/streams
Dr. Alphonse Sterling majored in physics as an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, and obtained his PhD in physics from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, in Theoretical studies of the Sun’s atmosphere. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, and that was followed by a second postdoctoral position at Kyoto University, in Kyoto, Japan. Following that he worked mainly in Japan with the Yohkoh satellite (which was a Sun-observing satellite jointly operated by Japan, the US, and the UK). Then, for several years he worked for MSFC — both in Huntsville and in Japan — for the Hinode satellite mission, a Yohkoh follow-up mission operated jointly by Japan, the US, the UK, and other nations. Since 2013 he has been doing solar research full time in Huntsville.
