This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... adjusted his telescope to project an 11-inch image of the sun onto a screen. He was tracing sunspots on a piece ...

National Geographic is expanding its unscripted slate ... that brings the galaxy’s most famous family to life, with the sun as the matriarch, surrounded by her unruly planetary children.

National Geographic has greenlit four new unscripted series, including The Real Finding Nemo (w.t.). Another new greenlight is Surviving Pompeii with Tom Hiddleston (w.t.) from Plimsoll Productions.