Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Giant Solar Flare...

NASA is tracking a large sunspot group, named Active Region 1302 (or AR1302).  One of its satellites captured this image of AR1302 emitting a gigantic flare.  The photo inset of the Earth is there to give you an idea just how big that flare is.  Via APOD, of course...

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