NASA Science - Secret Lives of Solar Flares @LittleSDOHMI

NASA Science - Secret Lives of Solar Flares @LittleSDOHMI

Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Thanks to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory researchers have just discovered that solar flares have been keeping a secret--and it's a big one.

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