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Sun..!
Washington DC: The sun's beauty has been captured by NASA in 4K Ultra
HD, giving space enthusiasts a safe way to examine the fireball. A color was
assigned to the sun's various wavelengths, each of which highlights a different
temperature. The result is breathtaking.
Set to a dramatic soundtrack, the 30-minute 'Thermonuclear Art' video
showcases the sun in “unprecedented detail,” NASA's Goddard
Space Center wrote in its description.
The footage was
made possible by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which keeps an eye on
the sun 24/7 and captures images of the fireball in 10 different wavelengths of
invisible ultraviolet light. It snaps a photo every 12 seconds, each of which
is eight times the resolution of HD video.
But
those wavelengths aren't invisible in the video. Instead, each has been
assigned a different color, which highlight different temperatures. The end
result is a feast for the eyes, with swirling hues hypnotically traveling
across the sun.
Making such a
beautiful (and lengthy) video wasn't an easy feat. In fact, it took a team of
video technicians about 10 hours to make one minute of footage – meaning that
around 300 hours were put into the video.
But the hours were worth it,
according to the Goddard Space Center, which says 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.”
The breathtaking footage comes
just weeks after NASA released a 4K video of Jupiter, which revealed
previously unknown details about the gas giant.
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