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Home / Kids and Teens / School Time / Science / Astronomy and Space / Solar System / Sun / Spots and Solar Flares
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- CNN - Solar Flares Produce Quakes Deep Inside the Sun - Explains the effects of solar flares including its impact on Earth's inhabitants and communication systems.
www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9805/27/sun.quakes
- CNN.com - Sun Aims Powerful Flares at Earth - Explains what a sun flare is and how it is both similar and different to coronal mass ejections.
www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/03/01/sunspots/index.html
- Large Solar Flares Since 1976 - A recording and table of some of the largest solar flares since 1976.
www2.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=8&SecID=2&SecName=The%20Sun%20and%20Solar%20Activity&SubSecID=3&SubSecName=Solar%20Cycle&LinkName=Large%20Solar%20Flares%20Since%201976
- Solar Flare Theory - Provides details about the future of solar flare research, with answers to questions such as what they are and why they are studied.
hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory
- Solar Flares - Information on coronal mass ejections, causes of solar flares, and solar winds.
csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/flares.html
- Sunspots - Brief description on what sunspots, along with drawings by various astronomers and space analysts.
es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/sunspots.html
- Sunspots and the Solar Cycle - Monitoring of sunspots and the solar cycle, with tutorials, material for educators, and interactive activities.
www.sunspotcycle.com
- Thanksgiving Solar Flares Trigger Large Weekend Space Storm - Reports on a series of solar eruptions, the geomagnetic storms they produced, and their effects, including the aurora.
www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather_001125.html
- The Surface of the Sun - Solar Flares - Explains how solar flares are caused along with some short movies of this phenomenon.
www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/vlammen.htm
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