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Ichingcarpenter

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1. More links to science sites:

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Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:26 AM

Jan 2012

ALMOST-X FLARE AND CME (UPDATED): This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion's M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare's extreme ultraviolet flash:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
http://spaceweather.com/

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