Tiny solar flares may explain the sun's ridiculously hot
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New evidence suggests tiny solar flares heat the sun's atmosphere to thousands of times the temperature of its surface.
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Huge sunspot that launched the strongest solar flare in six years
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Astro Bob: Earth sidesteps a powerful solar flare — for now
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This controversial climate solution could be exactly what the
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Sun: Facts
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Sun - Prominences, Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections
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Could a solar storm ever destroy Earth?
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Enormous solar flare struck Earth this week, but what does this
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Scientists find proof of unprecedented sun explosion hitting Earth
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Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300
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Sun
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