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*[http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/sun_earth4.html Windows to the Universe: Solar Flares.]  
 
*[http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/sun_earth4.html Windows to the Universe: Solar Flares.]  
*[https://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/cas/lessons/9/4.cfm NASA Aerospace Scholars: The Hazards.]
 
  
 
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Revision as of 20:59, 15 March 2008

A flaring coronal loop system on the surface of the Sun

Solar flares are energetic, impulsive, magnetically triggered events on the surface of the Sun and low in the corona. A flare event may lead to Coronal Mass Ejections being expelled into interplanetary space.

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