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ddeck
NASA released a very impressive 30-minute video of similar solar activity a few years based on images from their Solar Dynamics Observatory:

NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmbeLTHC_0

resolutebat
This looks a video explanation of a single still image. Am I missing something?
pixelesque
Yes, it's a video: you can see disturbances on the surface moving / churning...
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VelesDude
* rolls up newspaper * * bops on nose * No! Bad dad joke! Don't do that!
voidUpdate
It would be far too dark if you did that! You go there on a cloudy day, of course
jahnu
Is this in real time? If so then the speed of some of those structures is also incredible.
maaaaattttt
Exactly. What I'm always missing in videos of the sun is a time scale and a size scale. I'd love to have an earth time clock and a earth to scale in a corner of the image for reference.
moosemess
Once-intelligent narration of scientific videos has now been replaced with cinematic music and suspenseful drone sounds. I wish science would stop trying to compete with art and just deliver useful and already interesting information. Remember Bill Nye? Now all we get are attempts to clone Interstellar.
itishappy
Bill Nye is still around and so are his contemporaries. If you want intelligent narration about stuff like this, here's some recommendations:

Space focused:

https://www.youtube.com/@NASAGoddard

https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeanSpaceAgency

https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime

https://www.youtube.com/@DrBecky

https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath

General science (still plenty of space):

https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

https://www.youtube.com/@fermilab

https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceAsylum

jurassicfoxy
Can anyone else simply not even comprehend the existence of trillions of giant floating balls of gas that are just in a constant state of explosion, floating through space!? Like... how???