Scientists Say: Campfire

Scientists Say: Campfire

Campfire (noun, “KAMP FYRE”) Campfires are small eruptions on the sun’s surface. They are similar to massive explosions known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. But campfires are only about a millionth or a billionth the size of those outbursts. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter snapped the first pictures of campfires…