NOUN
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
How To Use solar flare In A Sentence
- With fair frequency, the Sun's surface erupts with solar flares, which send intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation into space.
- Solar flares are known to emit low energy cosmic rays which disrupt geomagnetism one or two days later.
- Radiation comes from the sun during solar flares.
- They made sure it wasn't some kind of electromagnetic disturbance, such as a solar flare or lightning.
- Tuck in behind an abundant gas giant and you have protection from solar flares and an inexhaustible supply of hydrocarbons and volatiles.
- Earth's atmosphere and its magnetic field manage to block most of the radiation from solar flares.
- The second are galactic cosmic rays, which, although not as lethal as solar flares, represent a continuous background radiation to which the crew would be exposed.
- BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They are officially known as coronal mass expulsions, but most people know them better at solar flares. CNN Transcript May 16, 2005
- The solar flares and the corona of the sun danced athwart the planet's silhouette.
- Solar flares appear as sudden, intense flashes in the chromosphere of the Sun.
