Weekend Solar Flares

Space Weather News for May 9, 2010
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WEEKEND SOLAR FLARES: This weekend, magnetic fields around sunspot 1069 became unstable and erupted--over and over again. On May 8th alone, the active region produced more than half a dozen flares. High-resolution movies from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory show that even the "minor" eruptions were jaw-dropping spectacles.  Visit http://spaceweather.com for highlights.