Nancy Alima Ali hosts.
For a few minutes each winter solstice, a shaft of sunlight shines through the entrance to the Neolithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland to illuminate the chamber within. Nancy Alima Ali from UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab talks with Dr. Claire Raftery, a solar physicist, space physicist and science educator at SSL and the Communications Lead for the upcoming NASA ICON mission, who grew up nearby Newgrange, to explore the meaning of this solar alignment in Irish history, folklore and culture.
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