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Twenty-four hours of the Sun compressed into 80 seconds — captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light (AIA 304Å), revealing the Sun's chromosphere glowing at around 50,000 degrees.
In this timelapse from 11 July 2026:
🔆 Active Region 4482 — days ago the most dangerous sunspot group on the Sun, now quietly decaying near disc centre as its magnetic complexity unravels
🌑 Dark filament channels snaking across the northern hemisphere — enormous rivers of cooler plasma suspended by magnetic fields, hundreds of thousands of kilometres long. Just two nights earlier, a filament in this same region violently erupted into space.
🔥 Prominences dancing on the eastern limb — arcs of solar material rising and falling above the Sun's edge
⚡ Active Region 4485 waking up in the west — watch it brighten through the day as it flares and launches a coronal mass ejection (which thankfully missed Earth)
All of this happened in one ordinary day on our star, 93 million miles away.
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📷 Imagery: NASA/SDO and the AIA science team (courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams)
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