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High-Resolution Images of the Sun Show How Flares Impact the Solar Atmosphere


d have a profound effect on what astronomers refer to as "space weather." These events vary with the Sun's 11-year solar cycle, releasing immense amounts of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum (from extreme ultraviolet to X-rays) into space. The effects of flares have been observed since time immemorial, which include aurorae at high latitudes (Aurora Borealis and Australis), but have only been the subject of study and prediction for about a century and a half.

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