Two videos of the Sun: a blast and a blast-off

Scott Wiessinger produces video for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center -- my old stomping ground, and I did some work with the video folks while I was there, too -- and he sent me links to two very cool videos he put together recently. In early June the Sun erupted, letting loose a huge plume of plasma from its surface which then fell back down along magnetic field lines in a display the likes of which I had never seen before. I created a video (at the link above) which was far and away the most popular I've ever done, garnering nearly 1.5 million views as I write this. But Scott's video of the event is much, much cooler: