NASA Releases Breathtaking Time-Lapse of the Sun’s Surface Shot Over a Decade to Celebrate...

You could learn some real things about the sun just by visually watching for a few minutes.

Or longer.

Here's a major flare in real time.

Here's a wonderful sequence of highlights from the SDO observations, with zoom ins also.


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There's something else about our sun this brings to mind I'd read a couple months back, which is so important it needs it's own thread, but these visual videos are sweet.

Michie said:

...Satellite Anniversary

It has been ten years since NASA launched a specialized satellite to film the surface of the sun—and they have now released a gorgeous time-lapse video of its solar movements over the course of the decade.

The Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) has been taking high-resolution photographs of the sun every 0.75 seconds since it was launched into Earth’s orbit back in June 2010.

To date, the SDO has amassed more than 425 million pictures of the sun in 10 different wavelengths of light, totaling up to 20 million gigabytes of photos.

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NASA Releases Breathtaking Time-Lapse of the Sun’s Surface Shot Over a Decade to Celebrate Satellite Anniversary

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How wonderful and glorious is our creator .... thanks for sharing ;o)

Genesis 1

14Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great [d]lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

eleos1954 said:

How wonderful and glorious is our creator .... thanks for sharing ;o)

Genesis 1

14Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16Then God made two great [d]lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

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It's such a wonderful chapter to listen to and dwell in.

This wonderful home He made for us.

We could have existed on a blank plane, for instance, without even any other life forms, and just a constant gray light -- and still in a home like that we would still have had to deal with life and choices. With the whole issue of good and evil, of trust in God vs trust in not-God.

But He made us a good home instead, even with a vast starry sky of unrivaled transcendent beauty stretched across a vast cosmos. Just for us to contemplate.

There is something else about our sun though, recently learned by observation, that is....well, you have to read it to believe it (or...at least to become aware of it). I just posted it in another thread, since it is so....remarkable, so....well, you'll see.