Thread: Solar flares
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Old February 3rd 06, 04:13 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default Solar flares

I was just wondering, solar flares occur with an eleven year cycle,
so that means we see solar flares from Earth every 11 years.

Do solar flares occur all over the sun every eleven years ? Or is there an
object with an eleven year orbit in orbit about the sun that draws flares
off the sun ? And we just see the flares every eleven years because the
Earth is between the object and the sun.