Astrophotography has become an increasingly popular lockdown hobby during the global pandemic, but NASA has given us a reminder that it's being doing it a bit longer than most – it has published an incredible decade-long timelapse of the sun on YouTube.

Called 'A Decade of the Sun', the hour-long video starts back on June 2, 2010, and was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) that orbits around the earth.

As you'd expect, the stats behind the video, which is mesmerizing if somewhat lacking in plot arc, are pretty incredible.

NASA's naturally needed a bit more than the world's darkest ND filter to shoot the timelapse video, with three main instruments used to capture the images.

While we admit this NASA video is lacking in character development, we found it to be a timely meditation on our perception of time (every second in the video is one earth day), not to mention a relaxing work companion thanks to the ambient music supplied by musician Lars Leonhard!

The video starts on June 2 2010, just a few days before Apple announced the iPhone 4, and some observers have used it to mark big life events – for example, YouTuber Balázs Stumpf remarks "my daughter was born at 2:39 and my son at 47:33.