If you watch the headline video on their site, it looks like they’re just reusing old footage of the launch from 2018, which isn’t made clear at all.
You have to scroll halfway down the page for the recent footage. (Or view the new footage directly on YouTube)
In the video, the surface of the sun appears furred with dark yellow material as beams of gold swoop overhead.
The colour is artificial, added in wholesale in post to enhance contrast (and mesh with cultural expectations of what the sun would look like), or the result of a filter.
But holy shit. The video is just jaw dropping.
Do you know if this is real time or time lapse?
I was trying to figure that out earlier, and I’m not 100% certain. The distance scales involved make me believe that it’s a timelapse, but I’m not sure how quickly solar eruptions play out, and I can’t find any quick references to timestamps.
I suspect the data is available somewhere on the esa’s website, but I haven’t had the spoons to go looking yet
Inspiring footage, such intricate patterns and yet eventually it all forms a stable(ish) whole. Incredible. Some of the atoms in my body were at on point in time a part of this craziness in some other star! And now I carry that around with me. Electrifying!
