As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.
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19 thoughts on “Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO | NASA”
Spectacular.
The most incredible aspect of the Sun I still find difficult to grasp is that for billions of years and for billions of years ahead there is all that mass and resultant energy being produced.
Even though it can be explained and I have read quite a few, in the back of my earth-bound 3-D orientated mind there are still those little words ‘Yeah. But?’
Absolutely incredible. Such beauty but one wonders the sun is such an unstoppable force that it provides help and danger to the Earth at the same time.
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My daughter loves NASA… this is pretty cool! ☀️☀️☀️
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It’s so amazing, I could watch it for hours…
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Yes!!
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This is spectacular–so hard to imagine the power that’s kept it burning for millennia.
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It’s immense, something like 5 million tonnes per second for billions of years…
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Spectacular.
The most incredible aspect of the Sun I still find difficult to grasp is that for billions of years and for billions of years ahead there is all that mass and resultant energy being produced.
Even though it can be explained and I have read quite a few, in the back of my earth-bound 3-D orientated mind there are still those little words ‘Yeah. But?’
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It burns 3 million tons of mass per second and has done for millions of years… That blows my mind…
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Quite beyond our imaginations.
The only way I can get to grips with that is by thinking, ‘so what’s 3 millions tons in this universe? Just a speck,’
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Yeah I know… But to us it’s immense…
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Just shows how small we are.
Perfect response to egotists appearing the media.
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That’s most of them 😂
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😅
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You’re back!!!!!
Awesome…….. 💕💕💕💕💕
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Oh yes, I’m back 🙂
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Really really cool!
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It’s great isn’t it?
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Absolutely incredible. Such beauty but one wonders the sun is such an unstoppable force that it provides help and danger to the Earth at the same time.
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Oh it’s such a powerful force and yes we are totally at it’s mercy.
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