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A bright solar flare is captured by the EIT 195Å instrument on 1998 May 2. A solar flare (a sudden, rapid, and...
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...
A large sunspot was the source of a powerful solar flare (an X 9.3) and a coronal mass ejection (Sept. 6, 2017). The...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
The sun's only visible active region sputtered and spurted and eventually unleashed a small (C-class) flare (Feb. 7,...
Active region AR 12192 on the sun erupted with a strong flare on Oct. 24, 2014, as seen in the bright light of this...
A solar flare erupts on Jan. 30, 2014, as seen by the bright flash on the left side of the sun, captured here by...
SDO View of M7.3 Class Solar Flare on Oct. 2, 2014 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an M7.3...
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...
The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2,...
The March 29, 2014, X-class flare appears as a bright light on the upper right in this image from SDO, showing light...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the...
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...
NASA image caputred November 6, 2010 To see a really cool video of this event go here:...
A solar magnetic active region containing the largest sunspot group of the last 10 years unleashed a large (X1.2)...
An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a mid-level solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a mid-level solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in...
A solar flare associated with the coronal mass ejection seen in this image generated a flurry of fast-moving solar...
NASA image release Sept 9, 2010 Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region...
NASA image release Sept 9, 2010 Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region...
The Universe is rarely static, although the timescales involved can be very long. Since modern astronomical...
Four different instruments on SOHO show a large CME on Nov. 6, 1997. The sun is at the center, with three...