Active Sun Unleashes Massive Solar Flare

Saturday, December 20, 2014 - 12:30 in Astronomy & Space

The sun fired off a massive solar flare late Friday (Dec. 19), after days of intense storms from our nearest star. The huge solar flare registered as an X1.8-class event, the most powerful type of flare possible, and was captured on camera by NASA's powe

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