Visiting the Observatory The solar observatory Here the sun is constantly monitored and alerts are generated when large dangerous solar flares erupt from the suns surface.

This is a real time image of the sun in x-rays from NOAA.
Bright spots are areas of intense x-ray emission.

A real time display of the aurora borealis from NOAA.

Northern lights, or the aurora borealis, is caused by high energy
particles from the sun interacting with earths magnetic field.