A NASA spacecraft perched in Earth's orbit has been monitoring the sun for the last decade. That's one year shy of a full solar cycle — the time it takes for the sun's north and south poles to flip.

NASA has created a stunning 61 minutes-long movie of a decade in the life of our Sun. Called “A Decade of Sun,”, the 10-year time-lapse video of the Sun as taken by its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO ...