• Question: Are there such tings as fire balls coming from the sun?

    Asked by aliahana to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Martin Archer

      Martin Archer answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Sort of. They’re not exactly fireballs, but the Sun does send out big blobs of plasma (extremely hot gas) called Coronal Mass Ejections. These can affect our technology on Earth if they hit, but we monitor the Sun and try to react accordingly, so you don’t need to worry.

    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Martin is right, and they’re also called ‘solar flares’. Watch this cool video!

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