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Description: Information on coronal mass ejections, causes of solar flares, and solar winds.
The Sun Celebrates Bastille Day! The most violent events on the surface of the Sun are sudden eruptions called . Flares typically last a few minutes and can release energies equivalent to millions of hydrogen bombs. Flares become frequent near sunspot maximum, when smaller flares can occur daily and large flares can occur about once a week. 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
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