Solar Flare (IMAGE)
Caption
A solar flare erupts from the sun's surface in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2012. On rare occasions, much more extreme solar storms affect the Earth in a way that if they happened today, they likely would devastate modern communication infrastructure on a large scale.
Credit
Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams
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License
Public Domain