The Rising Solar Cycle: X5.4 Flare ('W' sunspot group) seen by SDO

  • Released Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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Sunspot group 1429 of solar cycle 24 has launched an X5.4 flare can coronal mass ejection (CME) that is forecast to impact the Earth

This visualization has the full 4Kx4K frames from the 17.1 nm and 13.1 nm filters on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. 2Kx2K MPEG-4 movies are also available.

The solar flare in the 171A (17.1nm) filter

The solar flare in the 131angstrom (13.1nm) filter.

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
This page was last updated on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM EST.

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