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.

We see solar flares all the time, the cycle is one that bring the number of
them up and down during those years. Only we're suppost to be just past
lowest point of the cycle and the sun has still be very active with some
major sun spots with flares and CME's too.


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"Robert Finch @sympatico.ca" robfinchremove wrote in message
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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.

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:13:37 -0500, "Robert Finch"
wrote:

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

Nope, but most flares are associated with sunspot activity, and there
is a strong correlation between sunspot activity and flares.

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 ?

Nope. It's thought that flares and CME's are related to complex
magnetic fields, and there is no evidence whatsoever that Jupiter or
Saturn (or any other planet for that matter) are responsible for Solar
flares.


And we just see the flares every eleven years because the
Earth is between the object and the sun.


Nope.

start he

http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/

or he

http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/flares.htm

or he

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/flares.html

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