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The solar flare in this picture, which extends some 500,000 kilometers in space, occurred on July 27, 1999. The comparison between Earth and the flare, is
close to scale, Earth 12,800 km, flare 500,000 km .
This is one type of solar activity that affects our planets weather. This flare is not an isolated incident. They happen quite frequently this size and
bigger.
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