File:Sun Emits X5 Flare on December 31, 2023 (SVS14497 - 20231231 214620 4096 0131).jpg

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the right – on Dec. 31. 2023. This image shows 131 angstrom wavelength light.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

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English: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the right – on Dec. 31. 2023. This image shows 131 angstrom wavelength light.Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
Date 4 January 2024 (upload date)
Source Sun Emits X5 Flare on December 31, 2023
Author NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Scott Wiessinger, Denise Hill
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Solar Dynamics Observatory; Space Weather; Corona; Sun-earth Interactions; SDO; Heliophysics; Solar Flares; Earth Science; Solar Activity
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English: AIA 0131 channel (as well as AIA 094) is designed to study solar flares. It measures extremely hot temperatures around 10 million K (18 million F), as well as cool plasmas around 400,000 K (720,000 F). It can take images every 2 seconds (instead of 10) in a reduced field of view in order to look at flares in more detail.

Where: Flaring regions of the corona

Wavelength: 131 angstroms (0.0000000131 m) = Extreme Ultraviolet

Primary ions seen: 20 and 7 times ionized iron (Fe VIII, Fe XXI)

Characteristic temperatures: 10 million K (18 million F)
Date Taken on 31 December 2023, 21:46:20
Source 20231231_214620_4096_0131
Author Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
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Credit and attribution belongs to the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) team, NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory
This image or video was catalogued by Goddard Space Flight Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 20231231_214620_4096_0131.

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