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NASA captures stunning X9-class solar flare, strongest of this cycle

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<div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on Thursday an X9-class solar flare, the strongest of this solar cycle, in two ultraviolet wavelengths</span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">According to NASA, these solar flares are intense releases of energy from the Sun which can impact &quot;radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.&quot;</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thursday 3 flare is known as an X9-class flare. NASA explained that X-class flares are the most intense and that the number indicates their intensity. On February 22, NASA captured an X6.3 flare.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>(Production: Pola Grzanka, Bernat Parera)</strong></span></div>

<p>NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on Thursday an X9-class solar flare, the strongest of this solar cycle. </p>

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on Thursday an X9-class solar flare, the strongest of this solar cycle.