{"id":456,"date":"2019-07-23T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/planetarium\/?page_id=456"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:53:09","slug":"solar-superstorms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/planetarium\/fulldome-movie-library\/solar-superstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Superstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solar Superstorms (Trailer EN)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwttUaNCQX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. What\u2019s driving these strange phenomena? How will they affect planet Earth? Find the answers as we venture into the seething interior of our star.<\/p>\n<p><em>Solar Superstorms<\/em>\u00a0is a major new production that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun\u2019s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the Solar System: coronal mass ejections.<\/p>\n<p>The show features one of the most intensive efforts ever made to visualize the Sun\u2019s inner workings, including a series of groundbreaking scientific visualizations computed on the giant supercomputing initiative, Blue Waters, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>A co-production of Spitz Creative Media, NCSA\u2019s Advanced Visualization Lab, and Thomas Lucas Productions, in association with Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado (Boulder).<\/p>\n<p>This project has been made possible with support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Film Office; funded in part by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Runtime:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>24 minutes<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Suitable for:<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333\">College, General Audiences, Grades 4-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Target Audience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Grades 9-12, Adults<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Covered Subject Areas:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333\">Cosmology, Earth Science, Solar System, Space Science &amp; Astronomy<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Plot Keywords:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>stars, astrophysics, astronomy, science, light, solar system, sun<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Accolades:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Annual Fulldome Show, Beijing International Science and Technology Film Festival (BISTFF), 2018<\/li>\n<li>Audience Award for Best Movie, IPS 2016 Brno Fulldome Festival<\/li>\n<li>Official Selection, Gwacheon IFF 2016, Republic of South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Award Winner, Jena Fulldome Festival 2016<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention, IFF 2015, Espinho, Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Official Selection, Astra Film Festival, Romania, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Official Selection, Macon Film Festival, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fulldome Database (FDDB) Entry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fddb.org\/fulldome-shows\/solar-superstorms\/\">https:\/\/www.fddb.org\/fulldome-shows\/solar-superstorms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Description: A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. 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