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1. Yohkoh Public Outreach Project

   Take a tour of the sun, its magnetic fields, its layers, or compare it to other stars. See stunning X-ray images and movies taken by the Yohkoh orbital telescope.

   http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/

   
   

2. Images of the Sun

   See lots of pictures of the sun and videos too! From Nine Planets.

   http://www.nineplanets.org/pxsol.html

   
   

3. Solar Physics: Skylab

   Learn about the solar experiments of this space station and see hot images of the sun, including its coronal holes! There's a Windows Player video too.

   http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/skylab.htm

   
   

4. Sunspots

   Explore these fiery phenomena and the fascinating history of efforts to understand them, like the invention of the telescope! See hot images and videos too. From the Exploratorium.

   http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/

   
   

5. The Sun - A Multimedia Tour

   Take a virtual tour of our closest star and learn about its heat, corona, chromosphere, photosphere, solar wind, and more! In English or Nederlands.

   http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/od95/

   
   

6. The Sun: Man's Friend & Foe - Movies

   A huge variety of great movies of and around our sun, in a number of formats.

   http://library.thinkquest.org/15215/movie.html?tqskip=1&tqskip1=1&tqtime=0605

   
   

7. The Virtual Sun

   Features cool photos and videos of the amazing sun!

   http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/

   
   

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