If any of the saltier mods from other subs in this leak are reading this y ' all are living in a warped reality of your own design . Step into the light . <| sep |> nah bro dont do fuckin anything till your clean with no thoughts of goin back <| sep |> Why tf are you calling me ? <| sep |> Might have to use it myself in future . <| sep |> There is no specific source listed , but I ' m pretty sure this comes from the 304 angstrom channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument on NASA ' s Solar Dynamics Observatory . 304 angstroms is in the extreme ultraviolet , outside of the visible spectrum and so the typical procedure is to color each image with a color palette corresponding to whatever channel is being shown . Very roughly speaking , you can view the brightness of the image as a measure of how much plasma is at that point rather than thinking about this as being the actual color of the Sun . Regarding timing , these eruptions amazingly ! happen on minute to hour timescales so while this gif is sped up significantly , I don ' t think it is misleading given the massive amount of material being moved and the huge spatial scales being covered in such a small amount of time .