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Five Glorious Years of Sun Images In a Four-Minute Video

Posted by Soulskill on from the dang,-sun dept.

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.

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  1. You see? by Rei · · Score: 1, Troll

    Daystar bad! The Daystar, it burns us. Best stay indoors and guard our precious.

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    "That girl is a witch!" "Yeah, but she's our witch. So cut her the hell down!"