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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is 5 years old, releases close-up video of the sun
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StaffyManasse
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This. Time to watch Sunshine again.
zeioIIDX
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Oh God, I'd totally forgotten about this GIF!!You forgot the other video the observatory captured
The Shogun
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I can safely say this is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in my life
John Kowalski
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Blows my mind watching that. I kept thinking, what the hell is this thing anyways? A giant ball of fire floating in the middle of nowhere that some how keeps burning for billions of years. How much gas is in that thing and how does it not just all go up in flames at once in a giant explosion? I mean when it's so hot, how does anything remain not lighting up and remain not lit for billions of years? Boggles the mind.
everyday math
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Jaw dropping
Kinda speechless right now.
Kinda speechless right now.
Think of it like this: gravity contracts a huge sphere of gas until the temperature at its center is so hot that atoms are fused into each other, basically meaning that the core is a continuous thermonuclear explosion. The size of the star is an equilibrium between the contracting force of gravity and the explosive force of the fusion at the core. The sun is so dense that it takes years for a ray of light created at its core to escape through its surface.
Hero_of_the_Day
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It's always weird how fake reality looks.
Aquamarine
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Just to give an idea of the scale of this stuff.
damn
Just to give an idea of the scale of this stuff.
Its like ten times bigger than my ass
Well you wouldn't be able to see any this with the naked eye for multiple reasons so it's natural that this looks unnatural.
shadyspace
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Why does the sun exist anyway?
Crossing Eden
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awesome video
This i unbelievably cool looking. But also a bit terrifying.Just to give an idea of the scale of this stuff.
Aquamarine
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why do any of us exist?
Helios needed a job.
roflmao
EdwardTivrusky
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I suppose this stuff is fake to some extent as it's a composite of many different filters but without that processing we'd never be able to discerne anywhere near as much. Also the 'other worldliness' of the processing of the images helps me realise what i'm actually looking at and just how astounding the energies involved in cosmic processes are.
I comprehend very little of the deeper truths and my mathematics is terrible so i'm lost very quickly but i don't care, it still fascinates and enthralls me
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M0nochromatic
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o/ Praise it
Count Dookkake
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Needs scarier music. Great footage, though.
jackissocool
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Yo for real no surprise everybody throughout human history worships that thing.
A giant continuous explosion in space that gives us life.
A giant continuous explosion in space that gives us life.
George Carlin was right
Hero_of_the_Day
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I suppose this stuff is fake to some extent as it's a composite of many different filters but without that processing we'd never be able to discerne anywhere near as much. Also the 'other worldliness' of the processing of the images helps me realise what i'm actually looking at and just how astounding the energies involved in cosmic processes are.
I comprehend very little of the deeper truths and my mathematics is terrible so i'm lost very quickly but i don't care, it still fascinates and enthralls me
I just mean crazy shit in general. Like, 9/11 footage or something. It all looks so crazy, it looks fake. Like, you get so used to seeing buildings exploding in movies that when you see it in reality and it looks more insane than the movies, it looks fake in your mind.
mrmickfran
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Been like that since ancient Greece invented the sun. Before the dark ages and obviously before Newton rediscovered it.
commanderpepper
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Whoa.
Ether_Snake
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That's one of the greatest videos I've ever seen. If only humanity understood where it stands, maybe the Earth would be more peaceful.
Watch the video with this music from 2001, it's amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwWAciO6F4
Watch the video with this music from 2001, it's amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwWAciO6F4
Praise the Sun \o/
Ingueferroque
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The first youtube comment is so funny:
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