6 stunning images of the sun shared by NASA 

Let's take a look at some of the beautiful images of the sun captured by NASA 

1. Captured on June 20, 2013, this image shows 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, called a prominence eruption.

2. The dark region seen on the face of the sun at the end of March 2013 is a coronal hole. 

3. Captured on February 24, 2015, the Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period. 

4. The images depicts a CME leaving the Sun, slamming into our magnetosphere.

5. This illustration shows a CME blasting off the Sun’s surface in the direction of Ea CME blast and subsequent impact at Earth. 

6. Captured on June 20, 2013, the image shows 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, called a prominence eruption.

Source: NASA