What are solar flares?

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Veddesh #phi# · Stefan V.
Apr 13, 2016

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Explanation:

Solar flares are big explosions occurring mostly around the sunspots*. They emit a large amount of Electromagnetic radiations.

These explosions have high levels of energy

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Sunspots*

These are dark region or areas on the Sun.These are dark because,they are cooler than the other regions of the Sun.
Most of the Sunspots are the size of Earth

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