http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20020918/103236120009.html

The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up . . . taking Earth and the rest of 
the solar system with it, scientists warn. 

The alert was issued after an international satellite photographed a massive 
explosion on the surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 30 times longer 
than the diameter of Earth blasting into space.