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Earth-Directed X-Class Flare and CME
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An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 10-11, 2014. This event featured both a long flare decay time and a storm of electrically charged, energetic particles. The particles can be seen as bright white specks scattering across the frames. The coronagraph movie shows the cloud of particles expanding in all directions as if it were creating a halo around the Sun.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineEarth-Directed X-Class Flare and CME. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000989.
