Ten years of the sun in one hour releases mesmerising space film

Very interesting and nice.

It is more than an hour long, so it may be worth looking at the youtube comments [0]. There are some interesting moments in the video indexed by the commenters (e.g. solar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QQQu7QLoM

Stupid question - is the sun rotating as well? And if it is, is it rotating in the same direction that the Earth is travelling in? In fact, do all planets/moons rotate in the same direction?

Not only is the sun rotating, it's moving with respect to our local group of stars, and that's all rotating around the galactic center, and our galaxy is traveling also!

They look a bit more like this: https://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/2282013232750iAtC2afkODS6U....

Also Venus spins the wrong way compared to the rest of the planets.

I think I've found my new zoom background