- explosion.
Flares are used for
distress signaling, illumination, or
defensive countermeasures in
civilian and
military applications.
Flares may be ground...
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localized emission of
electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.
Flares occur in
active regions and are often, but not always,
accompanied by coronal...
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satellites in low
Earth orbit which were
known to
cause Iridium flares, the
brightest flares of all
orbiting satellites,
starting in 1997. From 2017 to 2019...
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infrared homing ("heat-s****ing") surface-to-air
missile or air-to-air missile.
Flares are
commonly composed of a
pyrotechnic composition based on
magnesium or...
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gases over
relatively short periods. At oil and gas
extraction sites, gas
flares are
similarly used for a
variety of startup, maintenance, testing, safety...
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Flares (foaled 1933 in Maryland) was an American-bred, British-trained
Thoroughbred racehorse owned, bred, and
raced by the
preeminent horseman in the...
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second group of
lights were
identified by
Robert Sheaffer as
illumination flares dropped by
another flight of A-10
aircraft that were on
training exercises...
- a Very
pistol or
signal pistol, is a large-bore
handgun that
discharges flares,
blanks and smoke. The
flare gun is
typically used to
produce a distress...
- cinematographers, but the
director J. J.
Abrams deliberately added numerous lens
flares to his
films Star Trek (2009) and
Super 8 (2011) by
aiming powerful off-camera...
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brightness for a few minutes. It is
believed that the
flares on
flare stars are
analogous to
solar flares in that they are due to the
magnetic energy stored...
