Some beautiful photos I shamelessly poached from this thread on reddit. I’m told that the last week has had “some serious solar activity” and that this is “the Jan 22 M9-class solar flare from AN1402”.
Apparently our friend the sun doesn’t just sit around all day and wait for us to blind ourselves in admiration. Sometimes she keeps herself pretty busy exploding herself so hard it causes geomagnetic storms and reroutes planes.
So yeah.
Chew on that.