Scanning through images of the sun, Senior Airman Erin O'Connell, a solar analyst at the Holloman Solar Observatory, looks for plage and flares. There are different classifications of solar flares, from smaller, common flares labeled as faint and normal, along with larger flares labeled brilliant flares.

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