Effects After An Eruption

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 03/31/2026

HOW SOLAR FLARES CAN DIM THE SUN: Solar flares are explosions of electromagnetic radiation that temporarily brighten the sun. However, yesterday’s X1.5-class solar flare did the opposite. The explosion caused an area around the blast site to become darker, shown here in an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:

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