Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare in Years

by Clara Moskowitz SPACE.com 09 August 2011 An extremely powerful solar flare, the largest in over four years, rocked the sun early Tuesday (Aug. 9), but is unlikely to wreak any serious havoc here on Earth, scientists say. “It was a big flare,” said Joe Kunches, a space scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

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