The sun was supposed to be full of vim and vigor right now, flaring and throwing off massive ejections of matter and radiation as it headed toward a peak of solar activity in May. But according to NASA, it's in an unexpected slump.
The image of the sun above shows what the sun looks like today, as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Different colors highlight different aspects of the sun's corona, including solar flares, mass ejections, and coronal loops — plasma that leaps off the surface and follows magnetic field lines in gigantic arcs.
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