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The sun’s strongest flare in 11 years might help explain a solar paradox
Physicists will test why the biggest flashes tend to occur as a solar cycle ebbs
By
Lisa Grossman
4:30pm, September 11, 2017
 

A series of rapid-fire solar flares is providing the first chance to test a new theory of why the sun releases its biggest outbursts when its activity is ramping down. Migrating bands of magnetism that meet at the sun’s equator may cause the biggest flares, even as the sun is going to sleep.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sun-solar-flares-paradox