The sun is the most important source of energy to support life here on earth, so it becomes necessary to have a closer look on it. Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of space agency NASA has been staring at the sun since 2010. A video released on Monday by NASA has been showing a twist of solar material on the sun.

SDO, the NASA mission, has observed the dramatic sun activity in extreme ultraviolet light, which we can’t see. The space agency has colorized it into red so that humans can see it. According to NASA, SDO clicked the fascinating pictures of the sun early this month.

NASA said the video demonstrates a giant cloud twists across the solar system’s star. Not all telescopes can do what SDO has done. When it is about observing the sun closely, SDO is prolific. Last year, the observatory clicked its 100 millionth image.

In a statement about the video, NASA said that the recently observed solar material twists over the surface of the sun were captured by SDO on June 7 and June 8. The video shows turbulence caused by combative magnetic forces on the sun. The darker colors shown in the video are cooler parts of the star. The areas in the brightest colors are hotter regions of the sun, as per NASA.

Researchers believe the new NASA video can help them understand the force behind such events and several other things about the sun.

A report published in Eurek Alert revealed, "Solar material twists above the sun's surface in this close-up captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7-8, 2016, showcasing the turbulence caused by combative magnetic forces on the sun. This spinning cloud of solar material is part of a dark filament angling down from the upper left of the frame."

Filaments are long, unstable clouds of solar material suspended above the sun's surface by magnetic forces. SDO captured this video in wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, which is typically invisible to our eyes, but is colorized here in red for easy viewing.

According to a story published on the topic by Inverse, "A giant cloud twists across the sun. On Monday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released close up footage of one of these solar clouds that undulated across the star on June 7 and 8."

The video captures a short-lived solar phenomenon called a filament, caused by shifts in the magnetic field of the sun. Studying these solar phenomena can give researchers insight into eruptions on the sun that can interfere with GPS on the Earth.

A filament is a mass of hydrogen and helium that is slightly cooler than the rest of the sun. This unstable cloud is lifted high above the surface by the sun’s magnetic field. In the video, you can see the twisting movement of the filament as it fluctuates with the contact between different magnetic forces on the sun.

Although it was filmed in ultraviolet light, which we can’t see, the film has been helpfully colored red so we can watch the filament dance. The darker colors reflect cooler parts of the sun, so the filament itself is dark red, and the hotter regions are displayed in brighter colors.