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Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL
A satellite that orbits the sun took this photo. A big storm on the sun is shooting bubbles of plasma into space. -
Photograph courtesy NASA
Astronauts on the International Space Station took this photo of an aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. These events happen when hot plasma from the sun collides with Earth's magnetic field. -
Photograph courtesy NASA
These swirls are called solar loops. They happen when the sun's superhot plasma pushes against its magnetic field. They can easily reach the height of ten Earths. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA
This portrait of the sun, taken by a satellite, is color-coded by temperature. The red parts are the hottest. -
Photograph courtesy NASA/G. Scharmer (ISP, RSAS) et al, Lockheed-Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab
The bubbles in this photo are called solar granules. Like bubbles in a boiling pot of water, they carry heat to the sun's surface. Each bubble is about the size of Texas.
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Photograph courtesy NASA/Stefan Seip (AstroMeeting)
This photo was taken by an amateur astronomer in Germany. It shows clouds of solar gas, called prominences, floating over the sun's magnetic field.
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Photograph courtesy NASA
The sun is the center of our solar system. It is a big ball of hot, glowing gases. -
Photograph courtesy NASA
It may look wild, but this image of the sun's surface was described by scientists as "a quiet day on the sun."
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