What If We Changed Our Sun?

From 2015 to 2016, NASA captured an image of the sun every 12 seconds—and ended up with these incredible, ultra-HD pictures. | National Geographic

It's a bad idea to stare directly at the Sun. That's why NASA took pictures of our nearest star every 12 seconds for 10 years. Now you can watch the Sun for a decade in a matter of minutes. | CNET

This is the highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken. The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope took the images from the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i. In their announcement the organization wrote, "The images show a pattern of turbulent “boiling” plasma that covers the entire Sun. The cell-like structures — each about the size of Texas — are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the Sun to its surface. That