NASA's 10-Year Time-Lapse Video of the Sun Is Mesmerizing as Whoa - Yahoo Lifestyle

June 2020 marks a full decade NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been watching the sun non-stop from its orbit in space around earth, gathering 425 million high-resolution images of the sun as it goes?

The video shows the rise and fall in activity that occurs as part of the sun’s 11-year solar cycle and notable events, like transiting planets and eruptions." According to NASA, some of the most noteworthy moments in the time-lapse video include:.

6:20 June 7, 2011: A massive prominence eruption explodes from the lower right of the sun.

31, 2012: The most iconic eruption of this solar cycle bursts from the lower left of the sun.

29, 2013: A prominence eruption forms a long 'canyon’ that is then covered with loops of plasma.