The primary explosion creates high energy electrons. These are funneled down into a magnetic flux tube, an invisible tube of magnetic energy, and produce X-rays, microwaves and a shock wave that heats the solar surface. They travel through the sun's interior. They recombine on the opposite side of the sun to create a faint duplicate of the original ripple pattern. A solar flare is an explosion in the atmosphere of the sun, caused by the tearing and reconnecting of strong magnetic fields.
Solar winds are when the corona is expanding into space.
The expansion causes comet tails always to point away from the sun. It takes about ten days for the gas to reach the Earth. The density of a solar wind decreases the further away it get from the sun. The particles are a mixture of ions and electrons. A total eclipse of the sun occurs somewhere in the world every eighteen months.