The Active Sun

Plumes of hot gas shoot across the surface on even an average day on the Sun. Such volatile activity was captured in dramatic detail recently by the new Hinode satellite launched by Japan in late September. Near the horizon, active regions around a sunspot eject hot plasma along the magnetic field lines that connect the sunspot to surrounding regions in the solar atmosphere. Bright regions are hotter and more active. The bubbling granularity and continuous activity of the Sun's photosphere is visible in the foreground. The above movie in representative color covers a solar region of 8,000 kilometers.
Credit: Solar Optical Telescope, Hinode Satellite, JAXA

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[skynetplayer]

when i was young, my uncle told me that the sun will die 5billion years by then. I WAS SO FREAKIN WORRIED. he said "dont worry, ur already dead by then." LOL

[Dwojy18]

I want to be an invincible giant and walk on the sun

[3DPlanets]

@TheDSMoviegamer

Yes, after the red giant stage.

[Dwojy18]

Did you even read words 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in my 12 word comment?

[Shochstetler602]

You would burn up long before you reach the solar surface. It's just not possible.

[Shochstetler602]

It might explode by then.

[TheDSMoviegamer]

To GasMaskGuy.

The sun Will turn into a dwalf.

[2142Boby]

loly

[Displaysac90]

the sun is so dope.

[invy9000]

dude on this vid its still hard to look at the sun..... :)

[wales4evr64]

gasmaskguy what the hell u on about couse it will die eveything does and it is actully in 5 billion years also about tht time the milky way will collide with the andromada galaxy

[GasMaskGuy343]

It won't die, just expand into a red giant, thus engulfing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth.