GOES X-Ray Data from

This plot shows measurements of the soft x-ray flux from the Sun over a time interval of three days (Universal Time). The data were obtained by a detector on each of two GOES weather satellites. Each detector observes in two soft x-ray energy bands. Therefore the plot shows four curves. The letters on the right side of the plot (A, B, C, M, X) represent a classification scheme for the intensity of flares. A flare is a C flare if its peak flux falls between

10

^-6 and

10

^-5 Watts m^-2. The peak flux of an M flare falls between

10

^-5 and

10

^-4 Watts m^-2.

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Sun-Grazing Comets
&
Coronal Mass Ejection

SOHO / LASCO
June 01-02, 1998
The inner circle shows the size of the visible disk of the Sun. The blue disk is the region occulted by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronograph (LASCO).