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solar flare

(sudden brightening of the Sun)

A solar flare is a sudden brightening of the Sun. Other stars also flare (stellar flares). Solar flares vary in brightness and the energy presumed to be released. They can affect power and communications on Earth. They are generally assumed to be the results of magnetic reconnection in the Sun's magnetic field, a plausible but complex process and current models are limited in how much observed detail they match.


(Sun,event type,corona)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012JAsGe...1..172Y/abstract
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/coronalweather/CMEsFlares/
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/the-difference-between-flares-and-cmes
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/What_are_solar_flares
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/what-are-solar-flares.html
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/solar-flares-radio-blackouts

Referenced by pages:
kappa distribution
light cone
magnetic arcade
magnetic reconnection
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS)
Moreton wave
quake
slitless spectrograph
solar eruption
Solar Maximum Mission (SMM)
solar particle
solar particle event (SPE)
solar storm
space weather
standard model of a flare
stellar activity
stellar flare
Sun surface features
sunspot
Ulysses

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