The images of the Sun and Aurora that you see in this film were not created by computer animation.
What you will see is real.

The Heart of the Sun will reveal to you a star that you have never seen before.

About the Film

For an entire month the great solar space observatory SOHO was dedicated to the needs of the production - making possible the capture of a unique image - a complete solar rotation at the highest possible resolution.

More than a decade of data from the Japanese satellite YOHKHO was sifted to create a continuous image of a complete eleven year solar cycle -from solar maximum to solar minimum then back to the unimaginable violence of solar maximum again.

Many gigabytes of close-up data from the high powered telescope on the "Trace" spacecraft was knitted together to create the first low level "fly-over" view of the surface of the sun - an unimaginable landscape of plasma fountains streaming through writhing loops of magnetic force soaring thousands of miles into the corona with whipcracking violence - erupting with storms of cosmic particles that can kill satellites - and astronauts.

About John Weiley

John is one of the world's leading producers and directors of high definition motion pictures. He has produced, written and directed films in all giant screen formats. His highly successful first IMAX® film Antarctica is now regarded as a classic. Antarctica won the prestigious Prix du Jury in the third International IMAX^® Film Festival, Paris, and the Golden Eagle award - the top prize at the New York CINE Film Festival. Weiley wrote and directed the IMAX® 3D film Imagine - by far the most complex 3D film yet devised - which received rave reviews. He then went on to make the IMAX® film the Edge, about Australia's Blue Mountain National Park, and his most recent IMAX® the highly acclaimed film Solarmax.