sun solar flare

The closest star in our solar system otherwise known as the sun, has been very active this week. On Friday evening the sun erupted a powerful solar flare. A flare so big that it would take 15 Earths set side by side to match or over 118,000 miles long. Friday's solar flare is known as a X class flare, and is the most powerful so far this summer, however it's not the biggest this year. The bigg