It would help to have enough mass to get us through a big solar flare.

A big solar flare while they were out that far would probably kill the lot of them.

I like it better when it gets dark and they light those big flares,' said Janet.

"It'll produce a big flare of magic to show us where Wiz is."

Second, a big solar flare was on the way.

In fact, a big solar flare was an event they had simulated many times before.

"It couldn't cause big solar flares, or anything like that?"

"A nice big flare and a lot of smoke."

He noticed that every few thousand years, a really big solar flare would blast me way up.

It turned out there had been a big solar flare two days earlier.