X-class Flare on Aug. 9, 2011 (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

X-class Flare on Aug. 9, 2011

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An X-class flare began at 3:48 AM EDT on August 9, 2011 and peaked at 4:05 AM. The flare burst from sun spot region AR11263, before it rotated out of view. The image here was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light at 131 Angstroms.

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