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The March 29, 2014, X-class flare appears as a bright light on the upper right in this image from SDO, showing light...
This combined image shows the March 29, 2014, X-class flare as seen through the eyes of different observatories. SDO...
The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23....
NASA image caputred November 6, 2010 To see a really cool video of this event go here:...
A combination of many (but not all) of the datasets which observed this flare. -- On March 29, 2014 the sun released...
Zoom in on the flare in ultraviolet (SDO/AIA), X-rays (Hinode) and gamma-rays (RHESSI) -- On March 29, 2014 the sun...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EDT on Oct. 19, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
This close-up of the sunspot underneath the March 29, 2014, flare shows incredible detail. The image was captured by...
On Aug. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
Like almost all solar observatories, NASA's IRIS can provide images of different layers of the sun's atmosphere,...
On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging...
On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging...
On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging...
An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal...
This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by a hypothetical exoplanet. Red dwarfs tend to be magnetically...
Caption: DG CVn, a binary consisting of two red dwarf stars shown here in an artist's rendering, unleashed a series...
This visualization shows gamma rays detected during 3C 279's big flare by the LAT instrument on NASA's Fermi...
This image taken by NASAS Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows one of the largest flares, or star eruptions, ever...
The largest solar flare ever recorded occurred at 4:51 p.m. EDT, on Monday, April 2, 2001. as Observed by the Solar...
IBIS can focus in on different wavelengths of light, and so reveal different layers at different heights in the...
The sun emitted a solar flare on Dec. 4, 2014, seen as the flash of light in this image from NASA's Solar Dynamics...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:24 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
A flare medium-sized (M2) flare and a coronal mass ejection erupted from the same, large active region (July 14,...
Blazar 3C 279's historic gamma-ray flare can be seen in this image from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA's...