Solar Flares

Sept. 6, 2017 - Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA's SDO

The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017. The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT and the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of both events. 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.returnees. “We are still dealing with people that aren’t in secure housing. We’re dealing with food insecurity and things like that,” Sarah Sandsted, a Haitian woman preparing to head home, told CNY Central, a local Syracuse station, on Tuesday. “A hurricane coming on its way is just about the worse news you can get.”