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LONDON: The biggest solar flare of the year went off just in time for Cinco de Mayo and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) managed to capture it on video.
According to Gizmodo, images of the event were captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which was launched back in 2010 and has since been used by researchers to study the Sun. The images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on May 5 at 6:11 PM EDT, show the different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light which were released by the solar flare. Changes in these wavelengths have revealed different temperatures.
In the images released by NASA, the different wavelengths were colorized in order to better make the distinction from one wavelength to another. The images show wavelengths of visible light, 171 angstroms, 304 angstroms, 193 angstroms and 131 angstroms.
