Major solar flare sighted this weekend
Small Sunspot, Big Flare: One of the biggest and brightest optical flares of the current sunspot cycle erupted this weekend. The flare was a whopper, but the sunspot group it came from wasn't.
The full story, which includes pictures of the flare and a coronal mass ejection, is at:
http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast06feb_1.htm###
Contact: Tony Phillips
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