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NASA Releases Images of 1st Notable Solar Flare of 2015
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The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 11:24 p.m. EST on Jan. 12, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNASA Releases Images of 1st Notable Solar Flare of 2015. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000829.
