Using the Time Lapse technique, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has published a spectacular one-hour sequence that shows us 133 days in the life of the Sun.
Chaos and beauty at the same time where the viewer can witness the formation of large loops of plasma over the gigantic star.
Obtaining the following images they got the help of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a spacecraft launched in 2010 as part of NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) program.
Although its primary mission lasted five years, the agency says the SDO should remain operational until 2030.
The images were captured 108 seconds apart in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength with SDO's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE).
In addition, the SDO is in a geosynchronous orbit 22,000 kilometers above Earth, and the Sun rotates every 27 days, creating an ever-changing view of the star's surface.
Agency researchers say that the SDO captures an extraordinary amount of data of approximately 70,000 images daily, with a total of up to 1.5 terabytes of data.
The SDO is a spectacular source of information whose goal is none other than to better understand the Sun, in part so that we can understand and predict space weather that can damage satellites, power grids, and other infrastructure. Put another way, the SDO plays a vital role in this effort.
The SDO is not alone in studying the star. ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has been studying the Sun since its launch in 1995.
In addition, in 2018 NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, which became the closest human-made object to the Sun, and in 2020, ESA launched its Solar Orbiter, which will take the closest images ever seen of the Sun and study the star's polar regions.
