It's the Sun's Turn

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We've seen lots of breathtaking photos and video of Earth taken from space. Here's a video of three years in the life of our sun, condensed into three minutes. It's beautiful and fascinating. But the real mind-blow, I found, is the image at the end of the story, which you can enlarge and then enlarge again to see details amazingly clearly (story, video, awesome enlargeable photograph): http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/04/nasa-time-lapse-of-the-sun/275229/