Seán Doran’s ‘Crimson Star’ Tours the Raging Surface of the Sun

Celestial filmmaker Seán Doran is back with a new project that interprets stellar snapshots from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The footage-like video tours the sun and reveals its fiery surface complete with brilliant solar flares, all depicted in a distinctive crimson.

To create the film, Doran attributed various pinks and reds to different wavelengths, creating an alluring interpretation of the fiery orb. Doran stitched together NASA’s captures, or more accurately, he says, the images were “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled and retimed” into a seamless film. “Crimson Star” is one of several astral projects he’s undertaken in recent years, and you can keep up with his latest works on YouTube. (via Kottke)

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