7 best images of Sun captured by NASA

A hole just above and to the right of the middle of the picture, which is a source of fast solar wind leaving the sun.

Depiction of the sun's magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

The Sun blew out a mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period

Bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere

High-energy X-ray data shown in blue; lower energy X-ray data shown in green; and ultraviolet light shown in red

The bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the Sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the Sun’s atmosphere

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun, erupted with a flourish