NASA has released a video of 5 years of photographs of the sun taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory that was launched into space in February 2010. The SDO snapped pictures at a rate faster than 1 per second capturing impressive explosions on the sun's surface – you know, the ones that disrupt internet and cell service.
The images are extraordinarily beautiful, even mesmerizing until one stops to think that as the sun ages and cools, it expands and will eventually grow to envelop and vaporize the earth.
There is a sci-fi ballet in there.
By the way, the Hubble Space Telescope exhibit on the deck of the USS Intreprid (Pier 86 @ W. 46th St) is mind-bending, to put it mildly, as you wander around underneath the space shuttle Enterprise to look at the photographs.
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