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What is the Difference between a sunspot and a solar flare?

Answer 1

Sunspots are cooler regions on the surface of the sun. And the solar flares are produced in these regions.

Sunspots are areas of densely packed, opposing-polarity magnetic fields that build up high energy and are released under specific conditions on the surface of the sun.

A solar flare arises from these active regions.

Under certain conditions, a solar flare emits a highly energetic X-RAY, which is nothing more than a massive cloud of plasma, into interplanetary space.

Another name for this phenomenon is a coronal mass ejection (CME).

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Answer 2

Henry Asbill

Sun flares are abrupt outbursts of radiation and energy that emerge from the Sun's atmosphere, while sunspots are dark patches on the surface of the Sun caused by magnetic activity.

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