... Bright Planets at McMath Pierce Solar Telescope . ... The answer is usually the most exotic and energetic of astrophysical environments, like active galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, or incredibly dense pulsars, the spinning remnants of exploded stars. ... Active Region 1429 may not only look, to some, like an angry bird -- it has thrown off some of the most powerful flares and coronal mass ejections of the current solar cycle. The M81 Galaxy Group Through the Integrated Flux Nebula . ...