Shape-Shifting and M-Class Solar Flare
June 18, 2012
A shape-shifting active region; AR1504 rotated over the eastern limb of the Sun on June 9 and started its journey across the Earth facing side of the Sun with a M-class solar flare. Between June 9 and 14 a total of 5 M-class flares were observed, of which the long-duration June 13 flare hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) our way. credit: NASA
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Environment, Technology Internet, Coronal mass ejection, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Index of radio propagation articles, Flare, Solar prominence, Solar flare, Corona, Sun
