solar flare

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Noun

solar flare (plural solar flares)

1. (astronomy) A violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere.

Hypernyms

• flare

Hyponyms

• B-type flare
• C-type flare
• M-type flare
• nanoflare
• X-type flare

 

Translations

violent explosion

• Arabic: اِنْفِجَار شَمْسِيّ m (infijār šamsiyy)
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  Mandarin: 耀斑 (zh) (yàobān)

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• Danish: soludbrud n
• Dutch: zonnevlam (nl) f
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• Finnish: auringonpurkaus, soihtupurkaus, roihupurkaus, flare (fi)
• French: éruption solaire (fr) f
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• German: Sonneneruption (de) f, chromosphärische Eruption f
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• Hungarian: napkitörés (hu)
• Icelandic: sólblossi m, sólgos n
• Italian: brillamento solare m, eruzione solare f, eruzione stellare f
• Japanese: 太陽フレア (taiyō furea)
• Khmer: អណ្តាតភ្លើងព្រះអាទិត្យ (ʼɑndaat phləəng prĕəh ʼaatɨt)
• Korean: 태양 플레어 (taeyang peulleeo)
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• Polish: rozbłysk słoneczny m
• Portuguese: erupção solar f
• Russian: со́лнечная вспы́шка f (sólnečnaja vspýška)
• Spanish: erupción solar f, fulguración solar f
• Tagalog: adlawing liyab
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• Turkish: Güneş patlaması, Güneş püskürtüsü

See also

• coronal hole
• coronal mass ejection
• solar filament
• solar prominence
• superflare

Further reading

• solar flare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia