From: "John Beamish" 

Some of you will complain about having to use a video player or have other
similar petty complaints.  I'm not interested .

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061204.html

Movie: The Active Sun
Credit: Solar Optical Telescope, Hinode Satellite, JAXA

Explanation: Plumes of hot gas shoot across the surface on even an average
day on the Sun. Such volatile activity was captured in dramatic detail
recently by the new Hinode satellite launched by Japan in late September.
Near the horizon, active regions around a sunspot eject hot plasma along
the magnetic field lines that connect the sunspot to surrounding regions in
the solar atmosphere. Bright regions are hotter and more active. The
bubbling granularity and continuous activity of the Sun's photosphere is
visible in the foreground. The above movie in representative color covers a
solar region of 8,000 kilometers. On some computers, the above MPG movie
will only play correctly after a player is downloaded, movie downloading is
complete, and the page is refreshed.

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