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Flares caught in the act

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Observations from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory provide compelling evidence for the central role of magnetic reconnection in solar flares.

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Figure 1: Solar flares and magnetic reconnection.

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  1. Terry G. Forbes is at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA,

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Forbes, T. Flares caught in the act. Nature Phys 9, 456–457 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2703

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