A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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The sun is the largest thing in our solar system. When we see sudden movement, even in time lapse, it really is sudden, because it happens over a huge area!
It wouldn't surprise me if someday someone looking at electromagnetic storms proposed the existence of electromagnetic life, as defined by behavior over time and not the existence of cell walls.
@Urban_Hermit @wonderofscience Largest thing in the solar system is the space within it ;)
That one flair looks like a rip in space/time where Lucifer is trying to cut through.
@Urban_Hermit I love that kind of thinking. the characteristics of life, where observable at any temporal or spatial scale, are genuine life.
@wonderofscience .. and they still don't know why the temperature is SO high ? .. That's an incredible animation .. and a bit scary to watch ...
@wonderofscience I'm just going to stare at this all day.
Each flare, each wisp, larger than our whole planet.
@wonderofscience Hey, I am new
@wonderofscience great video
@wonderofscience No activity at the poles?
@wonderofscience Musk should go there instead of Mars.
@Dss @wonderofscience yes yes yes yesterday!!!
@impy @wonderofscience No, he should go at night. He's *far* too clever to fall for going to the sun during the day, he knows it would be too hot. ;-)
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This was from 2022, and the solar maximum is this year. Imagine the difference between then and now.
@wonderofscience WOW! A glorious Spring equinox jewel.
@wonderofscience Not a simple yellow ball? We should definitely buy fresh pencils to our kids at leat every month.
@wonderofscience Cet hyperaccéléré du soleil est magnifique ! 
@wonderofscience wow. This is absolutely gorgeous. 
@wonderofscience look at that roiling bubbler 
Wow. That is beautiful.
@wonderofscience women who are tetrachromats can see all that directly. amazing.
thank goodness for this imaging technology that brings it to the rest of us (and tetras who dont want to get blinded I suppose)
@wonderofscience I'm wondering why it's almost completely horizontal, but not quite (nearly going to the bottom pole -- not sure if that's north or south or neither.)
