Two solar craft captured the sun's show on video.
Earth's star unleashed a solar flare early this morning that blasted high-energy radiation into space for about three hours. The dramatic event was observed in multiple wavelength by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The flare was placed in the "medium" class of solar flares. In the Asia-Pacific region, it was strong enough to cause short-term radio disruptions. The strongest and most intense solar flares are put into three categories, C, M and X.
Solar storms are the worst in history.
This morning's flare was associated with a large cloud of superheated plasma called a coronal mass ejection. The SDO and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory snapped images of the cloud's size and speed.
One of the things that made the views of the two satellites different was that the sun is in the direction of our star.
Powerful geomagnetic storms can be triggered by big CMEs, which can have negative effects on satellites and positive effects on the Auroral display. Experts said that it doesn't appear that today'sCME was aligned with Earth.
A number of flares have been fired off by the sun. Our star's activity cycle is expected to peak in about 25 years.
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