Sun Swirl
The Sun is twitching. Our bright yellow star does more than just sit out there keeping us warm even throughout its normal, cyclical ways. It acts up as it breathes, moves, gurgles, and roars with fierce energy as it meanders in its area within the vast Milky Way. The latest phenomenon out of an already phenomenal ball of gas is a swirling vortex we commonly refer to here on planet Earth as a tornado.
So, there is a tornado on the surface of the sun. Humanity has been staring up at the daily ball of light for all our history. Thanks to those at the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we can view active images of the sun in all of its stunning glory.  The NASA program provides us with new and beautiful glimpses of our otherwise discreet universal neighbor. It is through these images that we are able to learn more and more about the universe, science, and ourselves, really. No, not so much that last one. Try not to think about this too philosophically.
Our Sun is acting up. Again. This tends to happen. The 2012 doomsday characters have been given another log to fuel their fire. Keep in mind that solar activity ebbs and flows. It expands and contracts with entertaining intensity. Pitch that log back into the sun. It too needs to fuel its own activity.
[ images via: EIU Astro, French Tribune ]
