"NASA captures stunning image of powerful solar flare from the Sun"

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a solar flare on Tuesday, classified as an X1.0 flare, one of the most intense classes of flares. Solar flares are explosions of energy that occur on the Sun's surface, and the energy can travel about 93 million miles to Earth, where it can impact our technology. Radiation from solar flares can disrupt long-distance radio signals, damage satellites and other instruments. The most powerful flare in history was recorded in 2003, measuring at X28, and it produced particles that bombarded instruments around Earth.