NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of a mid-level solar flare on June 25. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. [Photo/NASA]
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