NASA Made This Awesome Video Of The Sun in 4k Super HD...Watch It In Amazement

It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy. In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles. Every time half of the Earth faces the Sun, we experience the brightness of daytime, the Sun’s energy and light driving weather, biology and more. But in space, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) keeps an eye on our nearest star 24/7. SDO captures images of the Sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. In this video we experience images of the Sun in unprecedented detail captured by SDO. Presented in ultra-high definition video (4K) the video presents the nuclear fire of our life-giving star in intimate detail, offering new perspective into our own relationships with grand forces of the solar system.

I think it would be against my duty as an American if I saw this video and didn’t share it with the world. Just do yourself a favor and skim through it. Or maybe light a joint, dim the lights, and just watch it all the way through. I mean think about what this is—that little yellowish-orange thing in the sky that we see every day (or a couple times a week if you’re a blogger) in super HD. Imagine showing this video to someone 50 years ago. The fact we have video like this is a miracle.

Like what, how is this even possible?

That’s the sun!

I guess the whole “one day the Sun is going to explode and kill us all” thing makes a little more sense now, but I’ll be fucked if that’s not one of the more awesome things I’ve ever seen. Apparently one of those tiny explosions is bigger than Earth itself. And now we can see them in 4k Ultra HD. I mean I can’t even get Wi-Fi to work in my bedroom but we have this footage of the Sun which is 93 million miles away. What a time to be alive.

 

PS: Gotta be honest, didn’t really expect the blue Sun to show up, and I gotta say, I don’t trust the blue Sun. Sits back in the shadows and then comes out of nowhere like that, looking a little too pretty.