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April 25, 2013 03:31 am GMT
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Incendiary NASA Video Shows 3 Years of Sun Explosions in 3 Minutes
For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activity each 11 years. The three-minute video above, which NASA released this week, shows the past three years at a rate of two images per day
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The sun also appears to slightly fluctuate in size in this clip, but that's simply a result of changes in distance between it and the SDO spacecraft taking the pics
NASA calls out the following highlights from the video: Read more...
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