“SOLAR SUPERSTORMS" now playing a the SFA Planetarium

SOLAR SUPERSTORMS -- This show takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun's rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system, coronal mass ejections. Audiences will witness a fury building on the surface of the Sun – high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave that reaches 100,000 kilometers high, and rising loops of electrified gas. What's driving these strange phenomena? How will they affect planet Earth? Find the answers as narrator Benedict Cumberbatch takes us on an adventure into the seething interior of our star.