133 days on the Sun...

The new sun video, which NASA released on YouTube Jan. 5, shows the sun as it appeared over four months from Aug. 12 to Dec. 22 in 2022. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the video as part of its constant watch for solar flares and other space weather.

Scientists then compressed the video so that all 133 days of it take up just 1 hour of your time. The video above, created by our Space.com team, compressed the SDO time-lapse even further, squeezing all 133 days of sun videos into just 2 minutes.

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"This 133-day time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength that shows the sun's outermost atmospheric layer: the corona," NASA wrote in a video description on YouTube. Check out the full video from NASA Goddard below (and rock out to the music of Lars Leonhard's "Geometric Shapes" album).