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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 12#️⃣ Question 12🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Your next bonus is visual. The image shows a graph of X-ray flux with respect to time measured from a solar flare. Answer the following three questions about solar flares: 1) Solar flares are associated with the magnetic field of the sun. What is the name of the area of the sun's corona where open magnetic fields allow for ionized gas to flow away? 2) What is the name of this ionized gas flowing away from the sun? 3) To one significant figure, how many times larger is the magnitude of the flux of a X2.8 solar flare compared to a M5.8 flare?

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