Solar flares are a great reminder of our sun’s truly immense power. Studying the intricacies of solar flares and other space weather could help us Earthlings improve disaster plans when the sun’s excess energy is headed our way. Now, the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured some incredibly detailed images of a solar flare. The team focused on hundreds of these razor-thin magnetic field coronal loops above the solar flare ribbons. One of the most tantalizing theories is the idea that the coronal loops may be the foundational building blocks of how solar flares form.