Solar flares, which are eruptions of energy on the sun's surface, are not typically harmful to human health. However, intense solar flares can cause disruptions to satellite communication systems and power grids on Earth. It is important to protect your eyes if observing a solar flare directly, as looking at the sun without proper eye protection can cause permanent damage to your vision.

Prolonged solar flares can have several effects on Earth. They can cause disruptions in satellite communications and navigation systems, potentially impacting global telecommunications and GPS functionality. Solar flares can also result in geomagnetic storms and increased radiation levels in the upper atmosphere, which may pose risks to astronauts and can interfere with power grids on the ground, leading to blackouts and electrical disruptions.

The Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protect it from solar flares. The atmosphere absorbs and scatters a large portion of the harmful electromagnetic radiation emitted during a solar flare. Additionally, the Earth's magnetic field deflects the charged particles that are released, preventing them from directly reaching the surface. However, in certain cases, intense solar flares can still have some impact on Earth, such as disrupting satellite communications or causing power outages in regions with weak electrical grids.

They're simple smoothbore devices... they can be made from various materials, whether metal or plastic. In the case of plastic, it's simply molded and then assembled. The firing pin is usually built into the hammer to keep it as simple a device as possible.

They all occur on the sun's surface! Some loop differently, but they all are on the surface, even the coroona

Yes they are, if you know what they are then good, if you don't then here it is; solar flares are flares that come from the sun, so if your up in space and you get to one GOOD LUCK

The radiation emitted from solar flares skiffs across the ozone layer of the earth, at both the north and south poles, creating the phenomenon commonly know as the "Northern" and "Southern" Lights respectively.

It is called a supernova.

Magnetic Storms have a severe affect on our technological and electrical infrastructure, both in space and on the ground. Usually Earth's magnetic field, generated by the dynamo under earth's lithosphere, protects us from magnetic disturbances, but severe magnetic storms have in the past knocked out power grids in the entire province of Quebec. Magnetic Storms would have a severe effect, and would likely, en masse, shut down large amounts of current human grids and technological infrastructure, as concluded by the National Academy of Sciences.

Although the cause of flares is not completely understood, they are known to be associated with the magnetic field of the Sun. One favored explanation is that they occur when magnetic fields in the Sun pointing in opposite directions interact strongly with each other. Such a situation can be brought about by the churning motion of solar material near the surface, and is more likely during periods of the active sun. Thus, there typically is a correlation between the frequency of flares and the number of sunspots.

Solar flares indicate a massive release of magnetic energy through the outer layers of the Sun's atmosphere equivalent in scale to over a hundred-million-billion tons of TNT This release takes the form of a range of particles, including a large number of electrons and charged particles. When these particles collide with the Earth (a couple of days after the flare), the fields generated can charge the upper atmosphere (disrupting communications) and even generate electrical charge in affected conductors, generating current and/or heat.

We're not sure, although this is a matter of intense study. We know that there is a correlation between low sunspot numbers and low solar activity, and we know that there is a correlation between high numbers of sunspots and high solar activity. We're pretty sure that one doesn't cause the other, but that both are caused by some other factor of which we are not yet aware.

There have been two recorded periods in the last few hundred years during which there was a long spell of lower-than-normal sunspot activity, and these are named for the astronomers who noted them. These were called the "Maunder Minimum" and the "Dalton Minimum", and each was followed by a period of unusually cool weather.

Here also, we're not sure what the relationship is, or if it was just coincidental.

If you would like to see the current sunspot number and a photo of the Sun today, visit spaceweather.com at the link below.

Mars does not have solar flares; only the Sun has solar flares. However, like the Earth, Mars is occasionally hit by "coronal mass ejections" caused by solar flares. Mars does get hit by fewer of these, because it is further away from the Sun.

During their existence, solar flares release enormous amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Much of it is in the form of ultraviolet radiation, radio waves, and X-ray emission.

More dangerous to human astronauts is the flow of energetic protons released by these eruptions, which can cause severe injury to living tissue.

Sometimes there will be come what is cold dark spots or cold spots on the sun which is basically where a certain area gets cooler than the rest of the area and during these cold spots the fuel is building up more and more and as you know with anything flammable the more fire or flame there would be well its the same in this case except the cold spots are sometimes as big as states or even countries and when the flame finally ignites the cold spot a explosive like reaction happens which builds pressure to spit out a solar flare

Solar prominences are caused by sense gas being ejected from the sun.

2019

a solar flare can last anywhere from a few minutes to an hour.

A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. Radiation is emitted across virtually the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves at the long wavelength end, through optical emission to x-rays and gamma rays at the short wavelength end. The amount of energy released is the equivalent of millions of 100-megaton hydrogen bombs exploding at the same time.

I don't know where you got years from but they don't last anywhere near that long. perhaps you where thinking of a solar cycle? in which case a solar cycle is about 11 years long.

solar flares would demolish all of earth but if small they probably would not affect us. remember wee are about 94.1 million miles away from the sun.