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Rahul Rao

India's Aditya-L1 sun probe spots 1st high-energy solar flare

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

India's newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays.

On Tuesday (Nov. 7), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that Aditya-L1's High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS) instrument had spotted the impulsive phase of a solar flare — the powerful burst of energy unleashed by the flare.

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