By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 4, 2016
This is cool. It’s a time-lapse video, showing one year of the Sun hanging out in the sky, rotating around, throwing off some coronal discharges, dealing with insanely powerful magnetic forces, and other things, all in about two-and-a-half minutes. The complete video is 6.5 minutes long, and that’s because there’s some nice narration and explanation at the end. If you’re about to watch it, it’s helpful to know that it takes the Sun about a month (in Earth time) to make a full rotation: