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Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection

This ultraviolet image, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead spacecraft on February 12, 2010, shows solar storms brewing in two active areas of the Sun.


NASA image courtesy the STEREO science team. Caption by the STEREO science team and Holli Riebeek.

Published March 20, 2010
Data acquired February 12, 2010

Source:
STEREO