Johannesburg Centre, Astronomical Society of Southern Africa

Enormous X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO
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28 October 2003

The third most powerful solar X-ray flare on record, a remarkable X17.2 category explosion, erupted from sunspot 10486 on Tuesday, 28 October 2003.  This is the second largest X-ray flare ever seen by the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft, after the major X20 solar flare of April 2001.  Regular observations of X-ray flares began in the 1970s.

 More information at:     http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMY3X7O0MD_Protecting_0.html 

 

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