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NASA's SDO Observes an X-class Solar Flare
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The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EDT on Oct. 19, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is always observing the sun, 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.
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Credit lineNASA's SDO Observes an X-class Solar Flare. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000934.
