A Week Filled with Flares

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During the week of Friday, August 12, to Thursday, August 18, 2022, the Sun was particularly busy. Several bright active regions were present, and starting on the 15th, they were responsible for 11 M-class flares. M-class flares are one level below X-class, the highest-energy designation. This imagery is all captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in the 171-angstrom wavelength of extreme-ultraviolet light. This wavelength is particularly good at showing loop structures in the Sun's corona, or atmosphere. At times, the image of the Sun disappears from view. SDO is in a geosynchronous orbit and occasionally Earth gets in between SDO and the Sun, blocking the view. Careful observation will reveal a fuzzy edge to the blackness that travels across the solar disk. This is Earth's atmosphere. Music: "Rhombus" from Geometric Shapes. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle): Producer Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle): Editor Tom Bridgman (GST): Visualizer This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14202. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14202. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If

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