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Watch a solar flare happen

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June 12, 2011

Check out this video from NASA of the June 7, 2011 solar flare. Watch it happen!

This is an SDO zoom-in composite (211, 193 and 171 wavelengths) video of the M-2 solar flare and spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) event on June 7, 2011. At the top is a graph from the GOES-15 satellite showing corresponding X-ray measurements of the event. Via NASA.

Dramatic solar flare June 7, 2011. Aurora alert June 8 and 9

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Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. She and her husband live in Tennessee, where they enjoy guitar playing and singing. They have 2 grown sons.