In his portfolio, Manteca has shared many images ranging from solar flares to that of the Comet ISON, and in this particular selection of images, parts of the burning sun have been displayed against a black sky full of stars, highlighting its immense power.

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation observed over the sun’s surface. The flares eject clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona of the sun into space that typically reach Earth a day or two after the event.