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Humans have always wanted to learn about the Sun,

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but it is dangerous to stare at with just our eyes,

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so we built structures to help us study it.

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Aristotle had his camera obscura.

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Galileo used a telescope

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to document sun spots.

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Spectrometers came next, allowing us to study the spectrum of the Sun's light.

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100 years later, George Ellery Hale

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explored the magnetic nature of the Sun

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with a spectroheliograph.

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Next, we launched Sky Lab

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and it gave us our first high-resolutions pictures of the Sun's surface.

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The YOHKOH spacecraft took x-rays of the Sun.

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Then, SOHO and Hinode sent us even more incredible images.

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TRACE delivered the closest ever pictures of the Sun and its magnetic fields.

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SDO images the Sun in many wave lengths.

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Now, with STEREO, we see the whole Sun in 3D, never missing an inch.

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Who knows what we will see next? We will just have to keep looking up...

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