Beautiful (and scary) Solar Flare

"Active Region 1402, the same sunspot cluster that blew out a solar flare and caused all the ruckus last week, is still being feisty: just before rotating to the other side of the Sun, it erupted in an intense, pulsing solar flare that actually was much more powerful than the one that happened last Monday. This was an X2 class flare, making it more than twice as energetic as Monday’s." - Phil Plait

Read More - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/28/the-suns-still-blasting-out-flares-big-ones/

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