In 2014, photographer and amateur astronomer Matt Malloy created an incredible image of the Sun’s activity by combining a huge number of photos transmitted to Earth by NASA’s SDO Solar Dynamics Space Observatory.
To create the image, Molloy used images taken between September 1 and October 8 of the same year. The author of the composition did not specify how many photos he used in total, but it is possible to calculate:
Every second, SDO transmits a new image of the Sun to Earth. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, which means the same number of pictures were transmitted every day. In 38 days, 3,283,200 photos were received. It turns out that Molloy worked with about so many photos of our luminary.
