Watch This Stunning 10-Year Timelapse Of Our Sun, Captured By NASA Satellites
NASA has released a 10-year timelapse video, amalgamating the activity that happens on the Sun.
Over the years, telescopes have managed to capture the majestic ball of fire in space and reveal to us its amazing avatars. Some images have shown the Sun in never-before-seen detail, whereas some have shown activities on its surface to help us understand it better.
And each image makes us stare in awe of the existence of this celestial object.
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And now, NASA has released a 10-year timelapse video, amalgamating the activity that happens on the hot solar surface.
The timelapse is the result of the high-resolution images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. SDO has captured 425 million of these images, collecting over 20 million gigabytes of data in the last decade -- from 2010 to 2020 -- to help us better understand the hot ball of fire that is helping life on our planet thrive.
The amazing Sun timelapse video is uploaded by NASA in 4K resolution so you can dive into the detailed imagery on your large-screen 4K TV.
SDO is loaded with a plethora of instruments that can capture the image of the sun every 0.75 seconds. According to NASA, the images by SDO have been captured at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometres, which is an extreme UV wavelength that shows the Sun¡¯s outer atmospheric layer -- the corona. We don¡¯t really see all this as the bright nature of the sun hides these details.
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This timelapse compiles one image every hour, compressing a decade of the Sun in just 61 minutes. The video shows the activity in vivid detail, while also showing the occasional passing of planets right in front of it or eruptions that occur on its surface.
There are some frames that are completely blacked out too. These are either caused by Moon or Earth eclipsing. Another longer blackout in the video is due to a technical glitch that the spacecraft instruments experienced sometime in the year 2016, which was resolved in a week.
All of this is going on with a piece of custom music titled ¡®Solar Observer¡¯ (composed by Lars Leonhard) playing in the background to add to the mystical and majestic imagery of the hot ball of fire in our solar system.
You can check out the whole video below:
