NASA released 30 minutes of footage of the sun in 4K [1]

You thought your Blu-ray player at home was good? NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) released 30 minutes [2] of what's called thermonuclear art (aka mind-blowing footage of the sun). It's eight times the resolution of HD! NASA has shared incredible planetary images [3] before, but we've never seen the sun active like this. SDO monitors the sun 24/7 and captures the star [4] in 10 wavelengths of invisible UV light every 12 seconds. Each wavelength is shown in a different color to highlight its various temperatures. The result: vortex-like, out-of-this-world (but, literally) footage that looks like it was straight from a sci-fi movie. It takes a team of specialists about 10 hours just to create one minute of this ultra-HD 4K video. Wow.

See GIFs of videos above and then check out the full footage here.