Wow.
Published on Nov 7, 2014
The surface of the sun from October 14th to 30th, 2014, showing sunspot AR 2192, the largest sunspot of the last two solar cycles (22 years). During this time sunspot AR 2191 produced six X-class and four M-class solar flares. The animation shows the sun in the ultraviolet 304 ångström wavelength, and plays at a rate of 52.5 minutes per second. It is composed of more than 17,000 images, 72 GB of data produced by the solar dynamics observatory (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) + (http://www.helioviewer.org/). This animation has be rendered in 4K, and resized to the Youtube maximum resolution of 3840×2160. The animation has been rotated 180 degrees so that south is ‘up’. The audio is the “heartbeat” of the sun, processed from SOHO HMI data by Alexander G. Kosovichev. Image processing and animation by James Tyrwhitt-Drake.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I just saw “Intersteller on Sunday. It is more than a visual thriller;it is a deep and thoughtful film (if a bit over-ambitious). This time-lapse of the sun fits right in with the images from the movie.
Also, tomorrow, the European Space agency will attempt to land a space craft on the surface of a comet 300 million miles from Earth. The craft has been chasing and zeroing in on the comet for the past ten years. I don’t know if anyone else is excited by this, but as a kid of 5 in 1947 who sent away to Popular Science for a ticket for the the first commercial passenger flight to the moon, I’m thrilled. I only hope to live to see humans on Mars. What are we if not explorers?
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Very nice Capt Joe and Marty enjoyed this thanks! 🙂 Dave & Km:-)
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