NASA's SOHO Catches Solar Flare (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's SOHO Catches Solar Flare

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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured this image of a solar flare as it erupted from the sun early on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003. This was the most powerful flare measured with modern methods.

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