Now that is hot! (Yeah, I had to. Sometimes the easy ones are just too hard to resist.)

It is amazing what we can do with technology now. These pictures from the surface of the sun show a strangely beautiful solar flare.

I wish they could give some sort of reference scale on the video so you could truly realize the size and magnitude of the massive solar flare in the video. But even though there is not a scale, it is still awesome.

And just think, this kind of activity (though maybe not at this scale) is happening on the sun right now…