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NASA's SDO Sees Solar Flares
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A solar flare bursts off the left limb of the sun in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 10, 2014, at 7:41 a.m. EDT. This is classified as an X2.2 flare, shown in a blend of two wavelengths of light: 171 and 131 angstroms, colorized in gold and red, respectively.
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Credit lineNASA's SDO Sees Solar Flares. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001057.
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