No wonder ancient cultures once worshipped the sun as a god. It is the giver of all life on Earth upon which our existence depends. But while the Greeks once portrayed our closest star as the charioteer Apollo, arcing across the sky, pulled by winged horses, today high-powered telescopes orbiting in the stratosphere capture the sublime sight of our sun in breathtaking detail. NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in February 2010 on a 10-year mission “Living with a Star” to place an “unblinking eye” in the sky trained on our sun and record in real time light across a range of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as solar events and phenomena of unimaginable grander. After SDO’s mission concluded in 2020, a huge amount of data had been amassed and was made public on the Space Administration’s website. More recently, UK digital artist Seán Doran, originally from Belfast, compiled and …