M1.2 Class Flare on June 13, 2012 (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

M1.2 Class Flare on June 13, 2012

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The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an M1.2 class flare on June 13, 2012. The sun is shown here in teal as this is the color typically used to represent light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, a wavelength particularly good for observing flares.

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Credit: NASA/SDO

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