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On Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 09:40 UT, most of the folks working for NASA were probably asleep. But NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory never sleeps: it’s only job is to stare at the Sun, 24 hours a day, every day. Good thing it does, too, because it caught a pretty decent-sized solar flare erupting from Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 26/09/2011 14:00 Number of articles : 2

Awesome X2-class solar flare caught by SDO