NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center |
some general information about solar flares. |
a "feel" for scientific research into the energetic emissions from flares. |
a glance into the future of solar flare research. |
What is a solar flare? |
Why study solar flares? |
What impact do solar flares have on human activities? |
What are hard x-rays? |
Why study solar flares in hard x-rays? |
What does a solar flare look like when seen in hard x-rays? |
X-rays from the Sun and other objects in the sky can only be observed from above the Earth's atmosphere. |
Solar flares have been imaged by the Hard X-ray Telescope on the Yohkoh Satellite. |
NASA's Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) is currently observing the high-energy radiation from solar flares. |
Space Weather: What Impact Do Solar Flares
Have on Human Activities?
Read "The Mysterious Origins of Solar Flares"
in the April, 2006, issue of Scientific American
Assemble
a Paper Model
of the RHESSI Spacecraft
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Use the knowledge you gain from these pages to solve the
Solar Flare Theory Crossword Puzzle
Other Web sites and some good, old-fashioned books that contain information about the Sun
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