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I'm an astronomer who studies the fuzzy but explosive atmosphere of our Sun. I use, operate, and help design space missions that tell us about the Sun we can't see from inside our own, protective atmosphere. My main day-job is to be a scientist who works with telescope- and sensor-building teams to help them understand and shape how ESA's Solar Orbiter mission will work. I look at the Sun in ultraviolet light, where it's covered in rope-like filaments, tenuous bright magnetically-shaped loops and puzzlingly hot ionised gas (plasma). The techniques I use split the Sun's UV light into its individual colours to tell us what it's made of, how it moves and what the conditions are that produce violent explosions like flares and coronal mass ejections.

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