Flares

Flares are used to avoid heat-seeking missiles.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.

No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.

The Sun’s magnetic field changes over a repeating 11-year cycle that causes an ebb and flow of solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

Solar flares are bursts of energy from the sun that can affect satellites and communication on Earth.