File:Sun - August 1, 2010.jpg
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current | 19:25, 22 May 2012 | 4,095 × 3,647 (1.39 MB) | Rainald62 | Several rounds of editing, especially the last one, degraded the quality. I went back to the original (NASA) version, applied only clipping (removing the earth at the lower right corner) and very minor compression keeping much more detail. | |
17:36, 14 March 2011 | 4,096 × 4,096 (944 KB) | A7N8X | correct contrast | ||
13:34, 12 August 2010 | 4,096 × 4,096 (4.42 MB) | Hive001 | took Earth out | ||
12:36, 9 August 2010 | 4,096 × 4,096 (4.23 MB) | Hive001 | |||
12:17, 9 August 2010 | 4,096 × 4,096 (3.88 MB) | Hive001 | {{Information |Description={{en|1=On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the news-making solar event on August 1 shows the C3-class solar flare ( |
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