Thanks to NASA, you can now sit back, turn off the lights, and enjoy mind-blowing views of space. The agency recently released several HD videos, including 30 minutes of stunning footage of the sun.
The video begins with a description of how NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission compiled the footage:
Every 12 seconds, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images the sun in 10 wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet light. Each wavelength is assigned a unique color and every image is eight times the resolution of HD video. A team of media specialists works about 10 hours to create one minute of this footage.
That means it took a whopping 300 hours to complete this 30-minute, 4K-resolution video. Check out the footage, above, for a view of the sun you've never experienced before. It will definitely make you go:
