Thermonuclear art sounds trippy enough, right?
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Scientists used data collected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – a craft tasked with constantly keeping an eye on the sun from space – to treat space fans to detailed views of the star in multiple wavelengths of light.
Nasa has released a video showing the Sun in 10 different wavelengths and compiled them into an ultra-HD video for our viewing pleasure.
The space agency released around 30 minutes of footage of our sun in glorious 4K, giving us a unique glimpse of what, exactly, is keeping us alive down here. The SDO snaps a photo every 12 seconds and captures the sun in 10 different wavelengths of ultraviolet light – something that would ordinarily be invisible to us. According to the video, it takes ten hours to produce 1 minute of this footage. The video, in ultra-high definition, presents the life-giving star’s nuclear fire in very intimate detail, as it offers a new perspective into man’s relationship with the grand forces found within our solar system.
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In NASA’s video, seen below, we get to see the massive solar flares that shoot out towards earth, and how the surface of the sun is shifting and changing over time. The video took a lot of work to build and process.
