133 days on the SUN NASA video

The sun is a constant presence for all life on Earth, bringing light, warmth and splitting our days and nights. But the sun is more than just a bright light in the sky and a new NASA video reveals its ever-changing surface in a stunning time-lapse that spans 133 days.

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.