Solar Flare 2024 8 April. From diamond rings to baily's beads, here's what to look for during the brief darkness in the day within the path of totality on april 8. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy.
Powerful outbursts from the sun—like this bright, flashing solar flare and the adjacent eruption of hot glowing gas—can wreak havoc with earth’s power grids, computers. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft.