<p>Disturbances in the sun’s magnetic field lines can cause it to expel large amounts of energy in the form of ‘solar flares’. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh talks about one such powerful flare that occurred last week, creating a radio blackout. Watch in #PureScience.</p>

Disturbances in the sun’s magnetic field lines can cause it to expel large amounts of energy in the form of ‘solar flares’. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh talks about one such powerful flare that occurred last week, creating a radio blackout. Watch in #PureScience.

Pure Science: What are ‘solar flares’ and why do they occur?

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Start your mornings with our journalists who bring you the big story of the day in ThePrintAM.
ThePrintPod offers you our special reports and opinions for when you‘re on the go.
End your day with our most popular show ‘Cut The Clutter’ by Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
But that’s not all. We also have Pure Science, National Interest, ThePrint Uninterrupted, Global Print, Politically Correct and PoliTricks.

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