Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO

[fishfinger]

Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO

As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.

With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer – the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes. The video shows the rise and fall in activity that occurs as part of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle and notable events, like transiting planets and eruptions. The custom music, titled “Solar Observer,” was composed by musician Lars Leonhard.

 

[wayward bob]

<adds to queue>

 

[wayward bob]

thanks fishfinger, awesome in the proper sense

 

[ska invita]

goes on a bit

 

[two sheds]

It's getting colder and darker fewer bright spots

 

[fishfinger]

thanks fishfinger, awesome in the proper sense

Our local god.

 

[fishfinger]

goes on a bit

Hopefully it'll keep going on for a few billion years

 

[wayward bob]

It's getting colder and darker fewer bright spots

solar minimum, it'll come back (though i read the last maximum in 2011 was weaker than normal) we must be due another one soon... 2hats?

 

[ska invita]

It's getting colder and darker fewer bright spots

 

[two sheds]

you can scoff, just wait until we're shivering round the fire in mid summer

 

[gosub]

 

[8ball]

What a fucking shithole - who'd live there?

 

[Numbers]

What a fucking shithole - who'd live there?

Be alright at night surely?

 

[8ball]

Be alright at night surely?

Imagine trying to sleep with that rigmarole going on.

 

[Numbers]

Imagine trying to sleep with that rigmarole going on.

My snoring prob’ piss it off.

 

[8ball]

My snoring prob’ piss it off.

Those flares and arcs are many times the size of this planet!
If you lie on your side you might get away with it...

 

[Numbers]

I did buy a box pillow recently.

 

[8ball]

I did buy a box pillow recently.

Did you check the label for flame retardance?

 

[Saul Goodman]

What a fucking shithole - who'd live there?

Imagine how much you'd save on heating bills.

 

[Numbers]

Did you check the label for flame retardance?

Not to the extent this endeavour has escalated to, but I do have a 30 day return policy.

Thank you brother.

 

[editor]

*duplicates merged

 

[Fez909]

From the comments: transit of Venus

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hopefully it'll keep going on for a few billion years

We've probably got less than that before Earth is fucked - read one estimate saying life will be toast in about a billion years. We'll probably manage that in the next couple of centuries ourselves though.

 

[krtek a houby]

goes on a bit

Just don't look at it directly.

 

[ska invita]

Just don't look at it directly.

im not....right now even as we speak