NASA’s IRIS Captures Strongest Solar Flare To Date (VIDEO)

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NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which launched last summer, captured the largest solar flare it has seen so far at the end of January.

A solar flare is a burst of x-rays and light from the sun, the cause of which scientists have not determined, according to NASA.

Watch the video via NASA:


Image credit: NASA/IRIS/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center

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