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The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 2:23 EDT on June 22, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory,...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 8:27 p.m. EDT on April 24, 2014. Images of the flare were...
Extreme ultraviolet light streams out of an X-class solar flare as seen in this image captured on March 29, 2014, by...
Extreme ultraviolet light streams out of an X-class solar flare as seen in this image captured on March 29, 2014, by...
A solar flare erupts on Jan. 30, 2014, as seen by the bright flash on the left side of the sun, captured here by...
Caption: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of Feb. 24, 2014. This composite...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
A team of scientists —led by Laura Hayes, a solar physicist who splits her time between NASA Goddard and Trinity...
On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, captured here by...
On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, captured here by...
An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:22 p.m. EDT on March 11, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
This movie from NASA’s SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An...
On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since...
A second X-class flare of June 10, 2014, appears as a bright flash on the left side of this image from NASA’s Solar...
A solar flare bursts off the left limb of the sun in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on...
A bright solar flare is captured by the EIT 195Å instrument on 1998 May 2. A solar flare (a sudden, rapid, and...
An active region at the sun's edge produced several M5-class (medium sized) flares over a ten-hour period (Apr. 3,...
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
An active region at the edge of the Sun blew out an X4 flare (one of the largest of the solar cycle) and a coronal...
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 11:24 p.m. EST on Jan. 12, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
An active region rotated into view and sputtered with numerous small flares and towering magnetic field lines that...
On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class...