Fig. 2.
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Panel a: About 38000 solar flares from 1975 to 2017 superimposed on the solar hemisphere that is observed from edge-on. Panel b: Same as (a) but observed from pole-on. Panel c: Observed flaring activity of the Sun varies with the inclination. The shaded region represents the uncertainty caused by the maximum and minimum of the solar cycle.
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