Photo of the Sun, with a scaled photo of the Earth above it (© 2011 Osha Gray Davidson)

Since we have a current satellite HD photo of the Sun on this page every day (courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory), we wanted to put the features seen on the Sun in perspective. See that tiny blue dot above the Sun? That’s our home, superimposed in true scale on the image of the sun.

It’s easy to see how the sun has such a tremendous influence on the Earth, and why solar power has so much promise.