Solar filament eruption

[jocundthejolly]

Awesome, in the proper sense of the word (or at least pretty cool to look at), even if you aren't a big sense of wonder person.

[meatrace]

The sun is a myth created by lotion manufacturers to sell more product.

[Orthos]

That first one will be my desktop soon as I get home. Pretty cool.

[LazarX]

They're pretty awesome to look at. Even when you realize that if the Earth gets hit with a suitably massive one, we can pretty much say goodbye to our technological civilization as every transformer on our planet explodes simultaneously.