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article_snippet: Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), illustration shown, was launched on 11 February 2010 and has observed the sun ever since.
article_snippet: ’s goal is to understand how exactly the sun interacts with the environment around Earth.
article_snippet: Their frequency varies from several a day, when the sun is particularly active, to less than one a week during quiet periods.