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    Aug 13, 2007, 04:02 PM
    Solar flares
    :) why does the sun have solar flares?
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    Aug 13, 2007, 04:06 PM
    Because all that heat has to have somewhere to go and that's out.
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    Aug 13, 2007, 04:28 PM
    Flares are powered by the sudden (timescales of minutes to tens of minutes) release of magnetic energy stored in the corona.
    Read : Solar flare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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