14 DAY TRIAL // If you're looking for something to keep you entertained for about half an hour, possibly while you are waiting for the pizza delivery guy to arrive or for the work day to come to an end, the video below might just do the trick.
Granted, the video only lasts for about a minute and a half, but I have to warn you: it is so stunning and utterly cool that you will probably want to replay it several times, and I'm saying this because this is the effect it had on me.
The video has only recently been shared with the public by folks with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for short) in the United States. It is a time lapse, and the images included in it were obtained over a four-year period.
According to Time, the footage documents the explosion of a star dubbed V838 Monocerotis. The star is located at a distance of about 20,000 light years from our planet, and in 2002 it experienced a major outburst. It is this outburst that the video shows.
Despite the fact that they have until now spent what seems to be hours on end researching this event, astronomers are still unable to say why it was that V838 Monocerotis put on this show just years ago, the same source details.