Video: A 10-year time lapse of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 07:40
in Astronomy & Space
As of June 2020, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory—SDO—has now been watching the sun nonstop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system.