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NASA Captures Images of a Late Summer Flare
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On Aug. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the flare, which erupted on the left side of the sun. 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 Captures Images of a Late Summer Flare. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001012.
