H-alpha flare

H-alpha flare

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National Solar Observatory instruments at the Sacramento Peak Observatory in New Mexico captured this ragged arch of a solar flare in the red radiation line of hydrogen as it exploded out through the magnetic `fabric' of the Sun.

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