The Sun emits a mid-level solar flare NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event


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The Sun emits a mid-level solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event.

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however - when intense enough - they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

Attribution: NASA/SDO

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