NASA shows 10 years of the Sun’s time lapse – video

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“The video shows the increase and decrease in activity that occurs as part of the 11-year solar cycle and notable events, such as the passage of planets and eruptions,” says NASA.

In the video, there are moments during which the Sun decenters and refocuses instantly, which is a sign that the SDO instruments were in full recalibration. Dark images are caused by the passage of the Earth or the Moon between the spacecraft and the Sun.

A longer outage that occurred in 2016 and observable in the video was caused by a temporary problem that was resolved after a week.

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