A powerful solar flare erupted from the Sun on Tuesday, briefly disrupting communications on Earth. The powerful flare, rated X1.1, originated from the Sun's Region 4479, and peaked at 4:50 p.m. EDT, ...
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The Sun has recently produced two colossal X-class solar flares that disrupted radio signals across large swaths of the globe, just as Americans are still parsing memories of nationwide cell outages ...