Solar flares ☀️ Solar flares are huge bursts of energy released from the Sun. These intense bursts of radiation take just a few minutes to reach millions of degrees, and their effects can be devastating, causing blackouts and interfering with satellites. Solar flares sound scary, but they won't exactly destroy Earth. Occasional flares from the Sun could reach our planet if they are especially powerful, at which point they can cause damage to power grids. #freeAstroSci #FollowTheScience #scientif

Explosions on the surface of the sun, known as solar flares, can have an impact on life and technology on Earth and experts say the sun is now in its most active period in two decades. Bill Murtagh is the program coordinator for the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center and described the sun as one big magnet with a north and south pole-- it also has negative and a positive polarity. Over the course of 11 years, the sun does a rotation of that polarity. "The sun is a big ball of electrically ch

Do solar flares affect us on Earth? How often do they happen? Can we predict them? Find the answers to these burning questions and more in the Solar Flares FAQs: https://go.nasa.gov/3m9w4p4 | NASA Space Alerts