Around 02:00 UTC last night (July 30, 2011), a sunspot named Active Region 1261 erupted with a short solar flare, which was caught by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Using Helioviewer I created a short video of the event:
The Sun lets out a brief flare
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