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The Solar Flare That Could Send Us Back to the Stone Age
Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly ...
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NASA watched four solar flares erupt from the sun at the same time, and one might have headed toward Earth
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured footage of a rare quadruple solar flare eruption. The eruption began around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23. The near-simultaneous outbursts ...