APOD 1.8

It came from the Sun Oh dear. I just know the 2012 doomsday fanatics are going to take note of this one. The Sun is three years away from reaching "solar maximum" which sounds catastrophic but it happens every 11 years if wikipedia is to be believed. expect more sunspots in late 2012 to early 2013, but other than that we're not expected to die yet. The Mayans didn't even say 2012 was doomsday, the Mesoamerican long-term calendar just kinda stops there. I wish I was old enough to comprehend the scope of human stupidity leading up to 2000. Silliness. The Coronal mass ejection depicted here is actually cooler than the sun's surface anyway (it's just a sun-fart.)