The Shaggy Sun

The Sun has been pretty active lately, popping off a series of fairly powerful X-class flares; they've been generating aurorae and other magnetic phenomena on Earth. But even before it started spouting off it was still busily doing Sunny things. Recently it was almost as if it was posing for photographers, and when you get someone like Alan Friedman--who knows his way around a solar photo--you get beauty and majesty. That shot was taken on Sept. 1, 2014, and shows a portion of the Sun. I know, i...