A party of five was sent out, led by M. Moranget, who was a rash and irritable man. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago John S. C. Abbott.
Both flares and CMEs depend on magnetic fields on the Sun. Image Credit: SOHO Image Credit: TRACE The most obvious difference between a solar flare and a CME is the spatial scale on which they occur. Flares are local events as compared to CMEs which are much larger eruptions of the corona.
This is simulating reconnection of the field lines. Note that energy from the rubber bands is released, which also happens during magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is important to solar physicists since they think that it in part is the cause of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).