Solar Flare 2024. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in. When sunspot magnetic fields of opposite polarity get tangled, they can snap and reconnect, causing powerful explosions of energy.
Nasa’s solar dynamics observatory captured this image of an x1.2 solar flare peaking at 8:55 a.m. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in.