Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares

Space Daily

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Berkeley UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2020

Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts. But as scientists discovered in 1996, flares can also create seismic activity - sunquakes - releasing impulsive acoustic waves that penetrate deep into the sun's interior. While the relationship betwee

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