A 10 years images time-lapse of the Sun (NASA)
From the Bits of Universe archive — 03/07/2020
A single video for ten years of the Sun’s life condensed into a time-lapse of just over an hour. The spectacular video, available at the link below, is the result of the assembly work of scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA, with thousands of photos collected over 10 years by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the space telescope launched in 2010 to study our star.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured over 425 million images, totaling 20 million gigabytes of data, showing phenomena otherwise invisible to our eyes. The mounted shots, one for each hour of observation from 2 June 2010 to 1 June 2020, also show details and features related to the solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere, with its constantly moving plasma particles.
Among the most beautiful moments, the one that happened between 5 and 6 June 2012 (12:24 minutes). You can see a round and dark spot that crosses the frame: it is the planet Venus, whose next transit in front of the solar disk will take place only in 2117.
