Sun unleashes powerful solar flare, Nasa says

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2. A few links.

For those who want fewer paraphrases and interpretations between actual source and the ear.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

There's a better link but it's on my school computer which is, weirdly, at school.

A good all-purpose link is https://spaceweather.com/ . It's largely the trough at which science-y sites drink and sup, which get masticated and up-barfed for less science-y sites like, um, the usual run-of-the-mill newspapers (of whatever political stripe).

The Sun's at/near/past solar maximum (until it's past, it's hard to know if it's a maximum and it's been esp. angry the last year or so, with what looked like a peak happening earlier than expected but not quite dying down).

I have my kids "play" with the actual SDO site, when you get to look at feeds from STEREO and other solar observatories in real time (with archival video) and change wavelengths and instruments on/at the solar observatories.