Emily Linden

Bear Elder

Solar Flares

• An enormous amount of energy being released

• Takes a matter of minutes to explode over a space

• Some piece of materials breaks free and escapes into space

• Occurs when hot gas breaks free

• Magnetic field causes the flares to be contained in its area

• So energetic they are linked to bombs

What is a Solar Flare?

Solar Flares

Taken in ultraviolet rays to show flares and sunspots

Sunspot

X and M are ratings for the Solar Flares

Flare hit Earth’s Magnetic Field

• The flare hit the Earths Magnetic Field

• Only aurora seen• Fast protons and charged

particles from the sun travel toward Earth, sometimes in the wake of a solar flare.

• CME (coronal mass ejection) seen • Shown how far the flare reached out• Taken on April 11 2013

• A massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space.

CME (Coronal Mass Ejection

CME (coronal mass ejection)

http://www.space.com/23323-powerful-solar-flare-seen-in-spectacular-close-up-video.html (An M9-class eruption lofted a faint coronal mass ejection towards Earth on Oct. 24th, 2013. )http://on.aol.com/video/raw-video--nasa-captures-dramatic-solar-flare-517336010 (A solar flare erupted along the sun's left side on Monday. The flare was recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, which is part of a 5-year mission focused on the sun. (April 16) http://on.aol.com/video/raw-video--nasa-captures-dramatic-solar-flare-517336010 (NASA calls it an X-Class solar flare, one of the most powerful to have erupted from the Sun this year. The flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection on July 11.) http://on.aol.com/video/raw-video--nasa-captures-dramatic-solar-flare-517336010 (Thursday's flare was the latest in a series of solar eruptions captured by NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory. Classified as a moderate M class flare it lasted for about 45 minutes, ejecting billions of charged particles into space in a coronal mass ejection on October 24.)

Videos on Solar Flares

Works Cited• http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News0315

13-m6flare.html• Astronomy Book Chapter 16• http://

www.space.com/23323-powerful-solar-flare-seen-in-spectacular-close-up-video.html