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- Caption:
Major solar flare imaged by Hinode- Credits:
- Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARC
- ID number:
- SEM2C5R08ZE
- Windows Media size:
- 1 003 kb
- QuickTime size:
- 1 177 kb
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- Instructions
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- Description
This video, obtained by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope (SOT), shows a whirl of a new developing sunspot colliding with an existing spot that explodes into a major solar flare. This solar flare, captured on 13 December 2006, produced high-energy protons that reached the Earth at the time of STS-116 Space Shuttle flight. The flare is shown in 3 different wavelengths. This video provides crystal-clear images of features on the sun's surface.
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