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A close-up of the intense X7.1 solar flare on October 1, 2024, by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO

A strong solar flare was recorded on October 1, 2024

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has recorded one of the strongest outbursts in the current solar cycle, with the potential to impact technological systems on Earth and in space
Image of the "smiling" Sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory on October 26, 2022. Credit: NASA/SDO

NASA's SDO (Solar Dynamic Observatory) spacecraft photographed the sun "smiling"

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These dark spots on the Sun, visible in ultraviolet light, are called coronal holes and are areas where fast solar wind bursts out into space. By chance, they managed to take a photo that looked like the sun was smiling.
A giant solar flare recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Source: NASA/SDO/AIA/GoddarSpace Flight Center.

Detectives following the sun

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Comet Ison approaches the Sun, November 28, 2013. Photo: NASA/European Space Agency

Comet Ison disintegrated as it approached the Sun * Experts: It disintegrated from the inside in the hours preceding its passage by the Sun

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The effect of solar storms on Earth. Image: NASA

NOAA has assumed responsibility for solar storm warnings

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Artist's perception - the sun as a changing star that seems very fixed to us

A new spacecraft to be launched this week will transmit high-quality video photographs of the Sun

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Has the mystery of the missing sunspots been solved?

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