Huge Solar Flare


NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory observed this ultraviolet image of one of the most intense solar flares witnessed in the past few months in sunspot 1112. A filament of magnetised material can be seen streaking 500,000 kilometres across the sun’s southern hemisphere. The bright spot just above the filament’s midpoint is UV radiation released from the sunspot. Read More from New Scientist

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