2011 Valentines Day X-Class Flare
February 18, 2011
The video clip of the large X2 flare seen by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in extreme ultraviolet light on February 15, 2011, has been enlarged and superimposed on a video of SOHO’s C2 coronagraph for the same period. credit: NASA
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