Our Sun in action.

The recent solar eclipse in North America placed the Sun into everyone's awareness for a short time. Here is some awesome imaging of the solar flare that you may have heard about in the news from time to time. These are from March 6th 2012 events. You can watch in HD, so put it full screen, sit close and remember how tiny we are (Earth) compared to this Sun. About the size of the asterix * on your cell phone's keypad compared to this full screen on a 27 inch screen!

The irradiation of ions from events like this make all those pretty Northern Lights. The sun imaging is from NASA of course.