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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an emerging solar flare. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and is colored orange.
NASA captured the moment the sun blasted a powerful burst of energy into space.
According to the space agencya “strong solar flare” broke out of the sun at 8:25 a.m. (NZT) Monday.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which constantly watches the sun, managed to capture a photo of the event.
In a pronunciation online, NASA said flares and solar flares have the potential to affect radio communications, power grids, GPS, and could also pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
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According to NOAAsome radio-failure activity was observed after the burst of electromagnetic radiation – which travels at the speed of light — and further solar flare activity was likely in the coming days.
The type of flare photographed Monday is classified as an X1 flare. X is the most powerful possible class of flare – although the “1” indicates it is low in strength.
It’s not the first time the sun has been caught releasing powerful bursts of energy into space. In February, the Solar Orbiter . spacecraft a gigantic solar eruption captured on camera.
At the time, it was the largest eruption of solar prominences ever seen in a single image, along with the entire disk of the sun, according to the European Space Agency.
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Fun facts about space from NASA.
solar prominences are large structures of tangled magnetic field lines that hold dense concentrations of solar plasma above the sun’s surface, sometimes in the form of curved loops. They are often associated with coronal mass ejections, which are large expulsions of the sun’s plasma and magnetic field.