(YouTube link) This video from NASA's Solar Dyn...  ...hows plasma spinning around on the surface of the sun , looking a lot like what we'd call tornadoes. Exc...

(vimeo link) A beautiful and trippy time-laps...  ...tiful and trippy time-lapse video of the midnight sun in Iceland, filmed in June of 2011. From the vime...  ...hers must visit list. Iceland during the Midnight Sun is in sort of a permanent state of sunset . The *stron...

Photo: Luis Argerich -...  ...Argerich - via Buzzfeed First it was Sunsquatch , now Pikachu sunrise ! Argentinian photographer Luis Argerich...  ...Argerich took this photo of an unusual sunrise over Rio de La Plata. APOD exp...

See any resemblance between these two photos?...  ...n eruption of ionized gas from the surface of the sun . Dr. Phil Plait recognizes pareidolia when he see...

Don't worry, the Earth isn't that close! It wa...  ...re that emerged last Thursday. It was spat out by sunspot

This image was selected as the Astronomy Pictu...  ...when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight , in this exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings...

Aah, the beach. The shimmering o...  ...e scantily clad girls frolicking in the sun ... wait scratch the last one, at least if you're...  ...Korea's most popular beach go there to avoid the sun : Covered end-to-end with multihu...  ...ound is a beach where people studiously a...

Celestial Buddies Do you dream of snugg...  ...antastic plush toys are designed to look like the sun

Recent news reports about a predicted decline in t...  ...ent news reports about a predicted decline in the sun 's magnetic activity pose the question, asking if...  ...mprehensive but simply written explanation of the sun

I just learned a lot about sunspots from Dr. Phil Plait. He's quite excited about NAS...  ...footage that shows the formation of a cluster of sunspots earlier this year. Sunspots are actually regions of slightly cooler material...  ...tually regions of slightly cooler mater...