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Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape (futurism.com)
60 points by alex_young 22 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments



NASA released a very impressive 30-minute video of similar solar activity a few years based on images from their Solar Dynamics Observatory:

NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0


Once-intelligent narration of scientific videos has now been replaced with cinematic music and suspenseful drone sounds. I wish science would stop trying to compete with art and just deliver useful and already interesting information. Remember Bill Nye? Now all we get are attempts to clone Interstellar.



> useful

> Bill Nye

what


What are you trying to say?


I think it's trying to communicate.


Is this in real time? If so then the speed of some of those structures is also incredible.


Exactly. What I'm always missing in videos of the sun is a time scale and a size scale. I'd love to have an earth time clock and a earth to scale in a corner of the image for reference.


Is there some slightly more raw footage available somewhere? This video is obscured by various bits of educational content.



Can anyone else simply not even comprehend the existence of trillions of giant floating balls of gas that are just in a constant state of explosion, floating through space!? Like... how???


Discussion [0] (24 points, 3 days ago, 4 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40255566


This looks a video explanation of a single still image. Am I missing something?


Yes, it's a video: you can see disturbances on the surface moving / churning...


AI at work. /s


Helioscape, surely?


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It would be far too dark if you did that! You go there on a cloudy day, of course


Joking like it's 1969.


* rolls up newspaper * * bops on nose * No! Bad dad joke! Don't do that!




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