NASA’s Decade-Long Time Lapse of Our Fiery Sun Is Absolutely Breathtaking
spacecraft has been continuously watching the sun for the past 10 years, taking 425 million images with high-resolution quality to bring us closer to the ball of gas than we could have ever imagined. The video shows lively movement on its surface, includingFrom its launch on Feb. 11, 2010 with a goal “to understand the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity’s technological systems,” SDO documented millions of images, taking one every 0.75 seconds.
Comprised of one photo per hour, the time lapse captured images at an extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, displaying a fantastic view of the sun’s hard-to-see. As the sun’s outermost part of its atmosphere, the corona tends to be overshadowed by the the star’s bright light, but can typically be seen during a total solar eclipse and is clearly shown here.
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