After posting this, I found another thread on it, but since I started this, I thought I should provide a solar image. This one shows the active group that launched the CME on October 22nd that was directed at Earth and which may hit us today just off-center, but the really nasty one is just rotating into view on the left-hand side, beneath the Sun's "equator".
You know, if the sun ever "goes out" we would be in a world of hurt. Events like this remind me of our precarious situation in the Universal Food Chain and reinforce my belief that God is indeed looking out for us.