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Two pictures of a spotty sun, taken roughly 24 hours apart\. 2026-05-29 16:48 GMT 2026-05-30 15:10 GMT Look closely, and you can see that the spots have the same pattern, but have moved\. The sun rotates\! No matter how much we improve our ability to take photographs through our telescopes, we will never achieve anything to rival this amazing video , taken in October 2014 from NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory :