Heliology (THE SUN/ECLIPSES) with India Jackson and Michael Kirk

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Sunset flimflam! Auroras! Eclipse tips! Let’s get to know the center of our solar system, the Sun, as the April 8th eclipse approaches. What is it made of? How big is it? Will it explode soon? Why can’t I stare at it? And why is it wearing sunglasses? Dr. Michael Kirk and almost-Dr. India Jackson are brilliant and charming Heliologists who have both worked with NASA’s heliophysics departments. Get to know them and also the giant hot plasma ball we revolve around. You’ll never (not look at it) the same.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's your friend with too much stuff hanging from his rear mirror, Ali Ward.
0:05.0	Let's get started, let's dip into it.
0:07.0	This one is about the sun.
0:08.5	We got Eclipse trivia and tips and dates tossed in.
0:11.6	It's also a BOGO. It's's a buy one get one because we have two
0:14.6	guests. Thank you NASA for both of them and thank you to wildlife ecology
0:18.2	ologists Corina Newsom for the intro to India. So I'm going to be honest we
0:21.8	weren't even going to cover this
0:22.6	ology right now. If we did we should have put it out a couple weeks ago. I've
0:26.3	always wanted to cover it, but kind of at the last minute I decided to trek
0:29.8	to see the eclipse in Texas and I selfishly
0:33.0	selfishly wanted to know how the sun works
0:35.6	because everyone's talking about it
0:36.9	and because everything alive on Earth
0:38.8	would be dead without it.
0:40.0	It's a key player, I was like, let's get this done.
0:42.2	So these two guests, one is a research scientist in the Helio Physics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
0:48.4	Now the other has a bachelor's and a master's in mathematics and is on the cusp of totality in regards to her PhD in astrophysics from
0:56.8	Georgia State University. She's self-taught in 10 computer programming languages.
1:00.8	She studies solar energetic particles,
1:03.7	coronal mass ejections, and has had multiple internships with
1:07.9	NASA's Helio Analytics Department at NASA Goddard. And these are the folks
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