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Five Glorious Years of Sun Images In a Four-Minute Video
An anonymous reader writes: In early 2010, NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory. It carried a number of sensors dedicated to watching and measuring various aspects of the Sun. The SDO's team just celebrated its fifth anniversary by going through a half-decade worth of images, pulling out the most amazing ones, and stitching them into an amazing video (YouTube). It includes enormous flares, sunspots, the transit of Venus, and more.
After reading the title, I was trying to figure out what they'd be showing of computer evolution in five years - especially considering it was of Sun computers. At second glance, I realized "Oh, that sun." Sigh...
Anyhow, great video. The description makes it sound like it was a series of still images in video format, but it was very dynamic (maybe series of stills were turned into video or something - I have no idea). Total space pr0n, if you swing that way. I especially enjoyed the shots where the silhouette of what I presume was Mercury passed in front, which gave a fantastic idea of the scale involved. Seems worth five minutes of your life, so give it a watch.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.