These 14 Images Of The Sun May Be The Most Spectacular Ever Snapped

• NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL
  The 100 millionth image captured by the Advanced Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It was taken on Jan. 19, 2015.
• NASA/SDO
  This "mosaic" image, also captured on Jan. 19, 2015, shows the sun in multiple wavelengths.
• NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL
  This photo shows a spectacular eruption on the sun. It was taken on June 7, 2011.
• NASA/SDO/LMSAL
  Taken Oct. 22, 2014, this SDO image shows an unusually large group of sunspots.
• NASA/SDO/HMI/AIA/LMSAL
  This false-color image from Oct. 24, 2014 shows magnetic fields produced by "coronal loops."
• NASA/SDO
  SDO captured this time-lapse photo showing Comet Lovejoy traveling around the sun in Dec. 2011.
• NASA/SDO
  This image was captured on Feb. 24, 2011. It shows a plume of plasma erupting from the sun's surface.
• NASA/SDO
  This image shows features on the sun that look a bit like a human face. The "eyes" show areas of hot material, the dark line of the "mouth" shows cooler material, and the "hair" around the outside illustrates material floating in the sun's atmosphere.
• NASA/SDO/Pesnell
  This three-color image was created with the help of a contrast-increasing filter. The dark spots represent the hotter regions.
• NASA/SDO/Goddard Visualization Studio
  This composite photo shows a rare transit of Venus as seen by SDO on June 5-6, 2012. The next Venus transit will occur on Dec. 10-11, 2117.
• NASA/SDO
  Sometimes the moon comes between SDO and the sun, as seen in this image taken on Nov. 22, 2014. If you look carefully, you can see that the edge of the moon is not a perfect circle--you can spot lunar mountains along the edge.
• NASA/SDO
  Captured on May 30, 2011, this two-part image shows an active region on the sun's surface where a moderate flare lights up a ridge in the region (left) and the difference between this exposure and an earlier one (right).
• NASA/SDO/GSFC Visualization Studio
  In this color wheel image, each color represents a different wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light present in the sun's corona.
• NASA/SDO/Mosaic created with AndreaMosaic
  A mosaic image of the 100 millionth image snapped by SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Instrument.