NASA’s Epic 10-Year Time Lapse of the Sun

Created from a collection of 425 million images totaling 20 million gigabytes

Source: Screenshot from NASA’s Video

To celebrate a decade of operations of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA released an epic 10-year time-lapse of the Sun, giving us a view of the star that we otherwise don’t get to see because of its sheer brightness.

The time-lapse, which has a fitting background score titled Solar Observer, is a 61-minute video where each second represents a day from June 2, 2010 to June 1, 2020. Each day is compiled from one photo every hour, bringing the total number of photos to about 87,500.

If watching the whole thing is a bit of a stretch, you can instead watch the 1-minute version in NASA’s tweet below.