On Saturday, March 29, the Sun released one of the most powerful solar flares of 2014, an X-class event that peaked at 1:48 pm EDT (0548 GMT). Such phenomena are the most intense the Sun is capable of producing, and are much more powerful than M-class events, the class one step below. The solar flare was observed by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in two wavelengths, at 304 and 171 Angstrom. The latest event was classified as an X.1-class flare, meaning that it had the lowest ...
