# Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

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Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

# Laboratory Solar Flares Reveal Clues to Mechanism Behind Bursts of High-Energy Particles

April 06, 2023

Simulating solar flares on a scale the size of a banana, researchers at Caltech have parsed out the process by which these massive explosions blast potentially harmful energetic particles and X-rays into the cosmos. [[Caltech story](https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/laboratory-solar-flares-reveal-clues-to-mechanism-behind-bursts-of-high-energy-particles)]

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Paul Bellan

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