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Powerful Burst of Energy
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare, seen in the bright flash on the right, on 14 May 2024. It shows a subset of extreme UV light, colorized in red and yellow, that highlights the extremely hot material in flares.
—NASA/SDO