The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly a decade, rated as X8.7, part of the 11-year solar cycle nearing its peak. Earth was not in the direct path of the flare.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the bright flash of the X-ray flare, following a week of flares and mass ejections of coronal plasma affecting power and communications on Earth and in orbit.
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