Provides details about the future of solar flare research, with answers to questions such as what they are and why they are studied. ... a glance into the future of solar flare research.
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What is a Solar Flare? ... Soft x-ray image of a solar flare on the Sun ... An excerpt from Carrington's report about his observation of a solar flare.
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Solar flare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A solar flare is a large explosion in the Sun's atmosphere that can release as much as 6 × 10 25 joules of energy. The term is also used to refer to similar phenomena in other stars, where the mor...
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Bottom Right: Wednesday's enormous X-17 flare is visible on the left side of this solar image taken by the Earth-orbiting GOES Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI). Credit: NOAA. ... TRACE close-up view of solar flare ... Solar flare as seen by SXI...
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Right: A solar flare blasts hot gas away from the limb of the Sun. Click on image to view movie. ... A few days later--no surprise--another blast wave swept past Earth. Satellites registered a surge of x-rays and gamma-rays. Hams experienced another blackout. It seemed like another X-class solar flare. Except for one...
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The Classification of X-ray Solar Flares; or "Solar Flare Alphabet Soup" ... A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields (usually above sunspots) is suddenly released. Flares produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to x-rays...
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Information on coronal mass ejections, causes of solar flares, and solar winds. ... The adjacent image shows shows a flare eruption in H-alpha light at 15:00 UT on July 14th, 1996, recorded at the Big Bear Solar Observatory (Ref).
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Solar Flare threat to planet? ... On November 4th 2003 the biggest flare explosion ever recorded erupted from the surface of the Sun. It did us no harm, but could a Solar Flare one day destroy all life on the planet? ... November 4th 2003 saw the most powerful Solar flare eruption (see animation below) on record.
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The Solar Physics Group of the International Astronomical Union's International Year of Astronomy is kicking off 2009 with a day of solar observation around the world &emdash; and beyond. The SDAC is privileged to take part in this effort to increase awareness of solar physics. ... CGRO BATSE solar flare database at the SDAC...
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