Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Set at the centre of our solar system, the Sun’s brilliant light shapes our sense of time, our health and our environment. People have always looked up at the sun in awe and wondered what secretes it holds.

In part four of four films, curator Dr Harry Cliff explores the how people have observed the sun throughout history.

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