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Developing Sunspot

Target Name:  Sun
Spacecraft:  Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope
Produced by:  NASA/JAXA
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Date Released: 21 March 2007

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Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) provides crystal-clear images of features on the sun's surface. This video shows a whirl of a new developing sunspot colliding with an existing spot that explodes into a major solar flare. This solar flare, captured on December 13, 2006, produced high-energy protons that reached the Earth at the time of STS-116 Space Shuttle flight. The flare is shown in three different wavelengths.

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