SOHO Image of Solar Flare (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

SOHO Image of Solar Flare

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This image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on June 15, 1999, shows streaks of bright light. This represents material streaming out from the sun (which is obscured in this picture by the central red disk so that it cannot overwhelm the image of the fainter material around it). Two other NASA spacecraft measured this material closer to Earth to better understand what causes this regular outflow, known as the solar wind, from the sun.

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Credits: NASA/SOHO

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