Looking up - 23 Apr 21

Published: April 23, 2021, 3:10 p.m.

b'This last week Table Mountain went up in flames, causing terrible damage, displacing people and destroying the lives of countless creatures and plants. But what is fire and how is terrestrial fire different to what we see in our Sun? Here to talk us through the physics (gently) is Dr Richard Armstrong, an astronomer at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory.'