From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped human history.
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The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; we’re experiencing a particularly busy one right now.
Extreme solar storms could play havoc with technological infrastructure.
Every few centuries the Sun blasts the Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.
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