Spots and Solar Flares
Links
CNN - Solar Flares Produce Quakes Deep Inside the Sun
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9805/27/sun.quakes/
Explains the effects of solar flares including its impact on Earth's inhabitants and communication systems.
CNN.com - Sun Aims Powerful Flares at Earth
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/03/01/sunspots/index.html
Explains what a sun flare is and how it is both similar and different to coronal mass ejections.
Large Solar Flares Since 1976
A recording and table of some of the largest solar flares since 1976.
Solar Flare Theory
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/
Provides details about the future of solar flare research, with answers to questions such as what they are and why they are studied.
Solar Flares
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/flares.html
Information on coronal mass ejections, causes of solar flares, and solar winds.
Sunspots
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/sunspots.html
Brief description on what sunspots, along with drawings by various astronomers and space analysts.
Thanksgiving Solar Flares Trigger Large Weekend Space Storm
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather_001125.html
Reports on a series of solar eruptions, the geomagnetic storms they produced, and their effects, including the aurora.
The Surface of the Sun - Solar Flares
http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/vlammen.htm
Explains how solar flares are caused along with some short movies of this phenomenon.