Main content

George Ellery Hale: Prince of the Sun

Dava Sobel celebrates the brilliant astronomer, George Ellery Hale.

A celebration of the amazing work of the little known astronomer (the world’s first astrophysicist) George Ellery Hale. He covered the peak of Mount Wilson with a constellation of instruments for observing the sky. His first objective - to study one particular star, our Sun. Hale’s monumental discovery in 1908 – that the Sun generated powerful magnetic fields - has been a source of inspiration for the world’s astronomer's

Release date:

Available now

27 minutes

Featured in...

Podcast