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Solar Flares and their Terrestrial Effects*

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THERE is no more fascinating problem in astrophysics at the present time than that of the origin of solar flares and of the remarkable train of events to which they give rise.

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ELLISON, M. Solar Flares and their Terrestrial Effects*. Nature 163, 749–753 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163749a0

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