New closeup video shows flares sputtering and gargantuan glowing loops dancing at the Sun's surface

Although the Sun is in a singularly serene state right now, that doesn't mean it's asleep. The video above is proof of that.Captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, it shows an active region on the Sun's surface rotating into view between May 23 and 25. Here's how NASA describes what we're looking at:
An active region rotated into view and sputtered with numerous small flares and towering magnetic field lines that stretched out many times the diameter of Earth . . . Act