The solar flares are very cool. I suggest watching in HD and full screen for maximum awesomeness.

Also from YT description:

The surface of the sun from October 14th to 30th, 2014, showing sunspot AR 2192, the largest sunspot of the last two solar cycles (22 years). During this time sunspot AR 2191 produced six X-class and four M-class solar flares. The animation shows the sun in the ultraviolet 304 ångström wavelength, and plays at a rate of 52.5 minutes per second. It is composed of more than 17,000 images, 72 GB of data produced by the solar dynamics observatory (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) + (http://www.helioviewer.org/). This animation has be rendered in 4K, and resized to the Youtube maximum resolution of 3840×2160. The animation has been rotated 180 degrees so that south is 'up'. The audio is the "heartbeat" of the sun, processed from SOHO HMI data by Alexander G. Kosovichev. Image processing and animation by James Tyrwhitt-Drake.

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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, November 11th, 2014 9:02am PST - promote requested by original submitter lv_hunter.

and that was the moment the entire human race became infertile... gulp
ha

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Adding video to channels (Timeshift) - requested by ant.

Hip-hip-hip-hooray,
I'll be a red giant someday;
And your world will go up in flames...

Set it to 1440...not even 2160(!!) and blue screened! ouchie

The sunspots that timeframe were some intense
Thus proving our star's light's clear dominance.
I guess you could say
When night turned to day
Old sol had established its... prominence(?)

Anyone else dragging the cursor back and forth across the time line?

I am now and making turntable scratching sounds. wiggy wiggy scratch (timeline scratch)

Maybe time for an upgrade..? I set it to 4k and it loaded fine. Despite only having a 1080 monitor (just wanted to see if it downsampled, no appreciable difference over 1080p stream).