Solar Flare Launches 120,000 Miles into Space [1]
Weather.com - Tariq Malik, SPACE.com, May 6, 2013
A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 p.m. NASA/SDO/AIA
An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft.
The solar flare erupted from the edge the sun, with NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory snapping photos of the sun storm. The flare peaked at 1:32 p.m. EDT, registering as a relatively medium-strength M5.7-class event.
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