What the SUN looks like over 10 years (NASA time lapse)

Check out this one hour time lapse imagery of the sun recorded over the course of 10 years by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO. Each second represents a day, and it takes over an hour to travel across time from June 2, 2010 to June 1, 2020.

[JackChristensen]

At 12:24 / 12:25 (June 6 2012) either Venus or Mercury passes ("transits") in front of the sun. Look for its silouette as it crosses the upper half of the sun from left to right. EDIT: I just found that it was Venus which transited...only one of two this century (the other being in 2004).

[danielscarbrough]

I just love watching the history of the world . Cool piece . 😂 and you all wonder where you go. Have fun 😊❤

[supremegalacticcommander]

I am in absolute awe. Hard to wrap your mind around it really, whether you are a religious or spiritual person, or neither. To think that it has been out there "cooking" away for 4.6 billion years and we are able to sit here and watch it on YouTube because of it, crazy. The perfect background music to be playing too.

[consis]

I can't stop looking at it, can't seem to turn away even for a moment. It seems almost hypnotic.

[JCO]

The 32 dislikes are flat-earthers who think the sun is just a bright light circling overhead. That it's rotating makes it even worse.

[joncamp]

Look at March 6th and you can see the solar eclipse from the vantage point of the space observatory! 53:30 on the timeline.

[JesterD]

My mom warned me about staring at the sun. Now I can't see a darn thing.

[FrederickTheGrt]

The old man in the sky, in his Autumn years.

[joswillemsen]

Wow... I love the video.
Watching it a couple of times, I noticed the following:
From 2010 on the sun looks pretty active/agressive; as if the sun is about to explode; gigantic flares over appr. 50% of the sun.
From feb. 2013 the flares are getting smaller and the sun looks less 'agressive'
From jul. 2015 the flares are getting smaller and the amount of flares are decreasing; looks as if there is less activity.
From jan. 2017 the sun looks pretty calm
From 21st of may 2019 the flares stopped almost completely and the sun looks totaly calm, only to have a sporadic outburst in nov. 2019, mar. 2020 and in may 2020.
To me it looks like the sun has picked up some more activity since may this year.

Is it me or do the polars of the sun look darker? And what does that mean?

[gaylordsaliba]

what happened on 20 june 2015 (30:54) ? it looks like a giant wave from the middle to the south

[gtamediaproductions]

Hard to imagine that each of those solar flares could fit hundreds of earths 🌎 in them. We are just a lost speck of dust compared to our sun. And to think that there are other suns hundreds of times larger than this one out there.

[FearFox]

at the beginning of the video, the sun looked bright and there were a lot of bursts of heat. towards the end, the sun looked dull, and dark. :/

[aemrt]

I used to wonder where the Sun went at night...then it dawned on me!!!

But seriously, really cool video. Love seeing the changes in solar cycle activity

[josephwoodrell]

I find it wild if you grab the slider and "fast forward through the time, and watch the sun rotate as we go around it... you can see it growing and shrinking, and really visualize the elliptical orbit the earth takes and it gets slightly closer and further away from the son

[TheBigLeChowski]

It’s crazy to think about how it takes a photon a million years to travel from the core to the surface.

[winds]

Consider watching this without ads where is was originally posted on NASA's YouTube channel. Great that CNET is cross posting, but they left off a lot of information, apparently dropped some frames, and the annotation of major events.

[richardmalone]

The change in activity from the 10 years ago to now is amazing. The sun has gone quiet.

[Noggin]

Why are the solar flares in two distinct bands?

[jessekilgore]

Not too shabby for a middle aged star. Look-ing-good.

[Mr.Awesome]

10:56, bottom left of the sun, large dark object is seen siphoning energy from the sun, before blasting off. Look for yourself if you call me a conspiracy theorist or are skeptical. im not saying this is definitively extra terrestrial life, but have no better logical explanation.