About the image: This is a beautiful complex flare involving two ribbon-like structures in the chromosphere. The ribbon structures form along the footprint of magnetic loops associated with the sunspot group. (Image courtesy of the National Solar Obseratory/Sacramento Peak, Sunspot, New Mexico).

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