Here are some pictures of an atomic bomb exploding in space, at night. In SPACE, at NIGHT! This is light from nuclear reactions, but not the kind that happen inside our sun.
I love to think about how differently we would see the universe if our sense of time were significantly altered. There are a number of illegal ways of doing this, but one legal way of experiencing an altered sense of time is through time-lapse photography.
Here are some awesome time-lapse videos by this guy Henry Jun Wah Lee: