Solar flares on display

Solar flares on display
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Solar flares on display in extreme ultraviolet light. NASA said the resulting swirl of magnetic field lines, which was made visible by particles spinning along them, "connected and reconnected several times."

February 14, 2011 4:29 PM PST

Photo by: NASA/SDO

| Caption by: James Martin

 

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