SPACE NOTES

Solar observatory logs more than 75,000 solar flares over 16 years

By ALEX SHEETS/Contributing Writer
Posted 2/2/24

On Feb. 5, 2002, NASA and the European Space Agency launched RHESSI — or the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager. RHESSI studied the Sun’s solar flares over a period of …

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