Solar Flares and its Effects

Solar Flare is a violent explosion in the Suns atmosphere releasing upto a total energy of 6×1029 joules. Solar flares takes place in the solar sun layer of corona 7 chromosphere heating plasma to tens of millions of kelvins & accelerating electron protons and heavier ions to the speed of light. They produce electromagnetic radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths from the long longwave radio to the shortest wavelength gammarays. Most flares occur in the active regions around sunspots where intense magnetic fields emerge from the suns surface into the corona flares are powered by the sudden release of magnetic energy stored in the corona. Solar flares were first observed on the sun in 1859.