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Image of sun from SOHO spacecraft with large, bright flare in lower center

Massive Flare Erupts From Sun

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured this image of a solar flare - the third most powerful ever observed in X-ray wavelengths - as it erupted from the sun early on Tuesday, October 28, 2003. The flare, in the lower center of the image, was preceded by a coronal mass ejection.

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