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A Significant Flare Surges Off the Sun
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The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images 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 lineA Significant Flare Surges Off the Sun. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000991.
