X-Class Flare (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

X-Class Flare

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On Oct. 24, 2014, NASA's SDO observed an X-class solar flare erupt from a Jupiter-sized sunspot group.

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Tahar Amari et al./Center for Theoretical Physics/École Polytechnique/NASA Goddard/Joy Ng

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