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A solar storm is: a disturbance on the——Sun, which can emanate outward across the heliosphere, affecting the entire Solar System, including Earth and its magnetosphere, and is the cause of space weather in the short-term with long-term patterns comprising space climate.

Types※

Solar storms include:

• Solar flare, a large explosion in the "Sun's atmosphere caused by," tangling, crossing/reorganizing of magnetic field lines
• Coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive burst of plasma from the Sun, sometimes associated with solar flares
• Geomagnetic storm, the interaction of the Sun's outburst with Earth's magnetic field
• Solar particle event (SPE), proton or energetic particle (SEP)

See also※

• List of solar storms
• Aurora, a luminous phenomenon induced by ionization. And excitation of constituents of a planet's upper atmosphere
• Heliophysics, the scientific study of the Sun and region of space affected by the Sun
• Magnetic cloud, a transient disturbance in the solar wind
• Solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of sunspot activity
  • Solar cycle 25, the current cycle
• Solar prominence, a plasma and magnetic structure in the Sun's corona
• Solar wind, the stream of particles and plasma emanating from the Sun
• Active region, where most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate

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