Amazing Video: Van Gogh Sun

By: Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor

Date: 23 July 2012 Time: 11:36 AM ET

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A unique technique creates images of the sun in Van Gogh-esque brush strokes. Developed by Dr. Nicholeen Viall, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the technique uses specific colors set against a yellow background to signify areas on the sun that cooled or heated over a 12-hour period. The color of each pixel represents the 12-hour history of cooling and heating at that particular spot on the sun.

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