No, this is not some sort of moving golden beehive, but the sun up close - or at least as close as one can get.
Indeed, each of these cells is the size of Texas, and is formed of a mass of gas and plasma reacting together.
These never-before-seen images of our star were taken by the brand new Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), located on top of Haleakalā, a 3,000m-high volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
This telescope will be used specifically to study the sun, in order to better understand its energy and life, as well as giving a more accurate understanding of “space weather”.
This close inspection is crucial, as solar activity can destroy satellites, harm astronauts and even damage radio communications.
"On Earth, we can predict if it is going to rain pretty much anywhere in the world very accurately, and space weather just isn't there yet," Matt Mountain, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which manages the DKIST, told the BBC.
"Our predictions lag behind terrestrial weather by 50 years, if not more. What we need is to grasp the underlying physics behind space weather, and this starts at the Sun, which is what the Inouye Solar Telescope will study over the next decades."
This telescope will be paired with Solar Orbiter, a new in-space observatory, which is set to be launched from Florida next week.
It is planned to get as close as possible to our star, 42 million km from its golden surface.
"We have joint observing plans already made between DKIST and Solar Orbiter which will be amazing," Prof Louise Harra from the Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos, Switzerland, told BBC News.
This move is a crucial step to better understand the Universe.
