Question

What is the Difference between a sunspot and a solar flare?

Answer 1

Sunspots are cooler regions on the surface of the sun. And the solar flares are produced in these regions.

Explanation:

Sunspots are active regions on the sun's surface. These are the areas of tightly packed magnetic fields of opposing polarity. They build-up high energy and released at certain condition.

From these active region solar flare emerges.

Solar flare a highly energetic X-RAY which is nothing, but a massive cloud of plasma, released into interplanetary space under certain situations.

This event is also called Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)