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an image of the sun with bright yellow flames

Astronomers recently detected an enormous but short-lived increase in radiation from the nearby star Proxima Centauri.1,2 This radiation burst, known as a flare, caused the star to become a thousand times brighter for ten seconds. Our sun also has flares, but those flares are much smaller. At the time of its peak brightness, the Proxima Centauri flare was ten times brighter (in the measured wavelengths) than even the largest flares emitted by our sun. This is another reminder of how our sun…

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the sun is shining brightly in the dark blue sky with lens flares on it

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the sun as seen from space

A crop of an SDO image (AIA 171) taken on March 26, 2011 at appx. 9:41pm UT shows much coronal activity on the Sun's north-eastern region. This image was rotated 90º clockwise, and adjusted to emphasize detail. More solar images can be found at the SDO site at sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Image Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. Edited by J. Major. www.LightsInTheDark.com

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