Heres the Sun in HD.

On March 30, 2010 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took different photos of the sun. The different colors coming off the sun are the different temperature ranges of the gases. Reds are cool, around 107,540 degrees Fahrenheit, blues and greens are much hotter about 1.8 million degrees!!!(Damn, that's HOT..!) The pictures are taken by a 3-ton satellite, which was thrown into the Earth's orbit 3 months ago, it shows our nearest star up close and in fine detail.

Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington says "These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research, SDO will change our understanding of the sun and its processes, which affect our lives and society. This mission will have a huge impact on science, similar to the impact of the Hubble Space Telescope on modern astrophysics.”



Here is a video of The Sun's eruptions.



It is said by NASA that SDO will determine how the sun's magnetic field is generated, structured and converted into violent solar events such as turbulent solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections. These immense clouds of material, when directed toward Earth, can cause large magnetic storms in our planet’s magnetosphere and upper atmosphere.