Massive Solar Storm Alert! The Sun's Explosive Power Revealed

[00:00:00]No need to avert your eyes from the sun on here. NASA has released new high-definition images taken by a space-based telescope.

[00:00:09]Naming the project thermonuclear arse, the footage was captured by the American space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

[00:00:18]It snaps a photo of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet light.

[00:00:26]Each wavelength helps highlight a different temperature of solar material and each is assigned a color.

[00:00:34]At various times you can see solar flares, vast explosions of material bursting out of the sun's surface, and coronal loops, solar material streaming up and down the lines of the sun's magnetic field.

[00:00:47]It took a team of specialists about 10 hours to produce 1 minute of footage.

[00:00:54]NASA also recently released footage of Jupiter in 4K HD showing changes in the planet's giant