Close-up video of the sun shows solar flares erupting on surface

A screenshot of a high-definition video of the sun taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory. “In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles”, the space agency said in a poetic statement upon the release of the sun’s video, as quoted by The Express. Though the sun’s extreme ultraviolet light is invisible to our eyes, the wavelength is colorized here in red. Solar activity can affect the weather and satellites orbiting the earth and causes the phenomenon known as auroras, the colorful streams of light seen in the skies around the North and South poles. In this video, we experience SDO images of the sun in unprecedented detail. Today, NASA can show us this with a new video.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory.

It took a team of specialists about ten hours to create one minute of footage, according to NASA.

The SDO also makes it possible for NASA scientists to differentiate between the wavelengths through the assignment of specific colors, which gives us an incredibly vivid image of the surface of the Sunday.

What we’re seeing are eruptions of giant clouds of solar material, called coronal mass ejections, and explosions of X-rays called solar flares.

What it all reveals is several active regions of the sun, which are usually the source of solar storms. It erupted with more than twelve minor events over a 30-hour period.