UNBELIEVABLE PICS FROM THE SURFACE OF THE SUN. From a new series starting soon on PBS, Wired Science: "Spewing billions of tons of plasma millions of miles into space, the sun’s eruptions, like this explosion captured by NASA’s SOHO probe, can be strikingly beautiful. But when they result in what scientists call coronal mass ejections—think seething bubbles of flung-off plasma—they can short-circuit satellites and trigger powerful magnetic shock waves that result in electrical power failures on Earth."