WATCH: NASA's Thermonuclear Art is gloriously mesmerising

It’s been a big year for NASA what with finding water on Mars, new images of Pluto and the announcement of a manned mission to Mars.

Of course, who could forget the release of the movie The Martian which is probably every astronaut's worst nightmare fleshed out into 2 hours of drama.

As well as this they are also celebrating 15 years of people living on the Space station, now isn’t that an achievement?

Today marks 15 yrs that humans have lived off the planet on @Space_Station https://t.co/Iek3989yl8 #15YearsOnStation pic.twitter.com/y1q5sUqgW0

— NASA (@NASA) November 2, 2015

So for the week that is in it, we have decided to showcase some of NASA’s fine work by bringing their Thermonuclear Art out for a gander.

The art is the result of many hours of hard work by the Solar Dynamic Observatory which watches the sun every hour of every day.

Their job is to study solar storms and flares, stuff that could potentially affect us here on Earth, but it has to be said it is a fairly scenic line of work.

NASA released 30 minutes of footage of the sun in 4K

Each minute of footage is the result of ten hours hard labour by the media specialists at the Solar Dynamic Observatory.

Every 12 seconds, the SDO takes an image of the sun in ten wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet light.

Each wavelength is then assigned a unique colour which forms an image with the resolution, 10 times the resolution of HD video.

Fascinating stuff.