Sun Gets Ahead of Itself, Shoots Off Huge Solar Flare on July 3rd
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The Sun jumped the gun on July 4 celebrations, as a huge solar flare erupted on the morning of July 3. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the outburst.
The flare was an X1.5-class flare. X-class flares are the largest the Sun emits, ahead of A-, B-, C-, and M-class flares. X-class flares are 10 times more energetic than M-class flares, the next one down on the pecking order, and are the largest explosions in our solar system (all respect to the great San Diego fireworks debacle of 2012). The X1.5 moniker means that the flare sat squarely between an X1 and X2 flare in its intensity.
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