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Sharmila Kuthunur

India's Aditya-L1 solar probe watches powerful flare erupt from the sun

An illustration shows India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft as it investigates the sun.

India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured one of our star's fiery outbursts in new detail.

From its vantage point about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, Aditya-L1 gets an uninterrupted view of our sun, allowing the probe to observe solar flares as they're unleashed, as well as other activities that can affect space weather.

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