The sun is massive and has a huge impact on our planet. The sun is also incredibly active.
Sometimes it likes to remind us of how active it is, from the 14th October 2014 to 30th October it showed us the largest sunspot that we have seen for 22 years. It measures 80,000 miles across or roughly the width of 10 Earths side by side.
The following videos were produced from 17,000 4K resolution images and show us how active the sunspot was while it was visible from the earth:
Graham Chastney 