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Meet Dr. Aleida Higginson, a theorist & modeler in the Heliophysics Science Division.🌞 Her love of studying our Sun began with a summer internship, which exposed her to the creative processes of research. “I stayed in the field because I loved that heliophysics is the perfect bridge between the vast scale of astrophysics and our life here on Earth. It often doesn't occur to people that we do in fact have our very own star that we can study up close!” At NASA, Aleida advances understanding of the Sun's powerful magnetic field. #WomensHistoryMonth 📷 The bright light in the lower right of the Sun shows an X-class solar flare on Oct. 26, 2014, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. This was the third X-class flare in 48 hours, which erupted from the largest active region seen on the Sun in 24 years.