Sun fires fourth major solar flare of week--more expected (sophia is correct get under a safe bridge or 20 ft. under ground)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 00:12.

Solar flareThere she goes again!

The same region of the sun that brought you three powerful solar flares in a 24-hour span from Sunday night to Monday evening let loose Tuesday night with another explosive flash of ultraviolet radiation and sent tons of its own solar material flying through space.

The flare, which peaked at 6:48 p.m. EDT, was the fourth this week to be categorized as X-class, the most powerful type of solar flare.

As usual, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught beautiful images of the sun's fireworks, which you can see above. (The flare is the area of bright white at the far left of the image).

PHOTOS: Awesome images from space

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fourth-xclass-s...

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