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GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Visitor's Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., invites the general public to a free lecture on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, entitled "Unlocking the Secrets of the Sun." The program will begin at 7 p.m. EST and is a continuation of the ongoing Soffen Lecture Series. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Although we depend on the sun to enable and sustain life, historically very...

Want to build a pinhole camera to look at an eclipse? Or learn more about how gigantic telescopes examine the sun? The place to go on the Web is solarweek.org from October 18-22. Twice a year, Solar Week provides a weeklong series of web-based educational activities for classrooms about our magnetic variable star, the sun, and its interactions with Earth and the solar system.Each day of Solar Week offers a different set of lessons and games for students ranging from the upper elementary to...