Solar+Storms

 [|**Solar Storms**]
==   **   A solar storm is an electrified gas cloud that erupts from the surface of the sun into space. If a powerful solar storm struck Earth, it could destroy crucial technology and cause a worldwide blackout. The two main types of storms on the Sun are solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Both storms have to do with tangled magnetic fields in the neighborhood of active regions on the Sun´s Surface. Solar flares emit energy in the form of electromagentic radiations. A solar flare typically lasts a few minutes to as long as an hour. CMEs are explosions in the corona, the top part of the Sun´s atmosphere. A CME typically releases about the same amount of energy as a flare, but it lasts several hours instead of minutes. If the CME is "aimed" at Earth, it takes about one to four days to reach us from the Sun. **     ==  

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