Photographer captures a 5-hour close-up video of the sun

A sky watcher has revealed stunning close-up shots of the sun in astonishing detail.

The flaming ball was photographed by a special solar telescope for an amazing five hours.

You can even get the gases flowing out of it.

Photographer Andrew McCarthy Share the dazzling video on social media.

“There’s a party on the sun but you’re not invited,” the space lover joked.

But he cautioned others not to try to look at the sun with a telescope themselves.

“Don’t try this unless you know what you’re doing,” he wrote on Twitter.

“You’d go blind or start a fire if you pointed a telescope at the sun.”

The video has been accelerated from 1800x to 3600x, to show how things move.

It is even larger to give an idea of ​​the size against Earth – needless to say our planet is very small by comparison.

People on social media were stunned by the video.