How many visitors to Sami Solanki, what’s up with the sun, he. But today it will be two more. Solanki, 61, is one of the world’s leading solar researcher and Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for solar system research in Göttingen, Germany. In the Foyer of the idyllic new building that looks from the outside, as if architect “Tetris” is played, we stand with him in front of an incredibly large image of the sun. And feel awe. What shines on clouds-free days, so peaceful from the sky, revealed the 1000 LEDs, backlit UV absorption as a blazing plasma ball with infernal forces. Fascinating and dramatic at the same time. Solanki comes right to the point. “The sun Concerns us,” he says. “We have learned in the last few decades, although much about them, but their dangers, we can not assess yet really good.”
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