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Solar Flare

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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The large frame shows a solar flare on the limb of the sun taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope (SOT). The small box shows the same flare captured by the X-ray Telescope (XRT). The combination of these two images shows how interconnected and dynamic are the processes throughout the solar atmosphere.

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