Sixty Symbols photographs the green flash that sometimes occurs as the sun sets, and its light is refracted through the atmosphere.
Tag: Sun
Coronal Rain: Learning Physics with the Sun
NASA’s Heliophysics (physics of the sun) website has an excellent collection of videos that would link quite nicely with physics discussions of the physics of light (electromagnetism) and the Earth’s magnetic field (as well as the action of charged particles in a magnetic field.
They also have awesome solar videos, like this one of coronal rain.
Natural phenomena like this are great for students to analyze because they require the integration of multiple concepts to explain.
The End of the Earth
The Earth will end with fire, non-metaphorically. It will be consumed when the sun expands as it runs out of fuel, 5 billion years from now.