Pieces Of Flare

Whenever I have a slow picture week I can always fall back on either puppy pics or space, in this case space delivered. This entire picture is amazing to me. It was taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory of a solar flare's filament. Just shows how beautiful and violent the sun is, and for a sense of how big we are in the universe, all of Earth is about the size of a spec inside that filament.