Examples of solar flare in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The effect of a dark matter asteroid is very close to that of a standard solar flare. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2022 The storm is due to a significant solar flare that happened on Thursday. — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2021 Could this energy, the kind that is projected, perceived, and exchanged, yet purportedly impossible to measure, have somehow spun the monitor’s compass, like a poltergeist or a solar flare? — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021 On Saturday, a large solar flare was detected coming off the sun. — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2021 This storm alert comes courtesy of a strong X-class solar flare that was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME) earlier this week. — Eric Mack, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021 In this dreary thriller, Cage rushes to understand a series of grim phenomena that ultimately lead to a solar flare that destroys all life on the planet, other than those whisked away on interstellar arks. — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2021 What atmospheric phenomenon, which was named by the astronomer Galileo, was recently visible further south than usual due to a recent solar flare? — CNN, 5 Nov. 2021 Spacecraft picked up a powerful X-class solar flare bursting out of a sunspot on Thursday. — Eric Mack, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021

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