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Sun celebrates July Fourth, unleashes solar fireworks

07/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The sun unleashed an M1.5-class solar flare (lower left) on July 3, 2013, a solar fireworks to the traditional Fourth of July holiday in the United States. (NASA/SDO) The sun fired off an intense solar flare Wednesday, giving NASA scientists…

Sun unleashes spectacular solar eruption

05/06/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT. (NASA/SDO/AIA)…

Sun unleashes biggest solar flare of the year yet

04/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a powerful M6.5 class flare, the strongest of 2013 at the time, at 3:16 EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171…