solar flare
noun
: a sudden temporary outburst of energy from a small area of the sun's surface
called also flare
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The team at Queen's University Belfast had focused on a particularly powerful solar flare from 2012, analyzing the density shifts that took place in the atmosphere alongside the flare's own oscillations.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Last weekend, the sun was particularly restless, unleashing eight M-class solar flares between Friday and Monday.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Sunspots produce solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which create the geomagnetic storms here on Earth that cause the aurora to appear.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Unusually, these solar flares didn't come from sunspots — dark patches on the sun's surface indicating intense magnetic activity— but magnetic filaments detaching from the sun.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Last weekend, the sun was particularly restless, unleashing eight M-class solar flares between Friday and Monday.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Sunspots produce solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which create the geomagnetic storms here on Earth that cause the aurora to appear.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Unusually, these solar flares didn't come from sunspots — dark patches on the sun's surface indicating intense magnetic activity— but magnetic filaments detaching from the sun.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for solar flare
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“Solar flare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20flare. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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