NASA made a 10-year timelapse of the Sun

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/02/nasa-made-a-10-year-timelapse.html

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Neat!

(The music is debatable, but I could just swap it.)

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Better fake than that moon landing one.

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NASA tricked me into staring into the sun…

And it was amazing!

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At 56 minutes, a series of eclipses …

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12:24 Venus transits the face of the Sun
36:18 Mercury transits the face of the Sun
1:01:09 Jupiter transits the face of the Sun

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It is really hard for me to picture how much energy that is. Every one of those flares are enough to incinerate us

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Wait…how is that possible?

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That’s either just a bit of low-level trolling, or somebody thinks the end titles are part of the sun footage.

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Anyway: pretty neat probe, and on track to double its projected lifespan.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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@KingGhidorah

If so, that’s some quality boingboing right there. :joy:

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I don’t understand why if the Sun is a sphere, and the Moon is a sphere, and all the other planets orbiting around the Earth are spheres, why the Earth itself is flat? It doesn’t make sense to me, but I did have that operation that removed a good portion of my brain to make more room in there for Skittles…

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Sun worship always seemed like the most logical religion to me.

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Oooh, let me try!

45:23 Betelgeuse transits the face of the Sun
98:27 Pluto transits the feet of the Sun
1:03:49 The moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

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“I bet my brother 20 dollars that he couldn’t stare into the sun for 5 minutes. He won–but I only gave him a dollar.” -Mike Gandolfi

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That’s insanely cool that you can actually see the 11 year solar cycle… around 2018, it becomes noticeably calmer on the surface. This would be an amazing tool for school use.

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Just when I running out of things to smoke a doobie and stare at for an hour…

i_like_that_doctor_who

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