NASA’s SDO Captures Dazzling and Powerful Sympathetic Solar Flares

NASA’s SDO Captures Dazzling and Powerful Sympathetic Solar Flares

Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Two powerful solar flares exploded nearly simultaneously on the Sun earlier this week, creating a spectacular and exceptionally rare sight. At about 10:30 PM ET on January 22, a pair of solar flares erupted from sunspots AR3559 and AR3561 at nearly the same time. The two flares occurred around … Read more