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causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday ...

X-class flares also have the potential to create global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts, NASA says. Fortunately, Sunday's solar flare didn't come close to that 2003 output.

MORE: It's cold outside, what happened to global ... to the solar cycle, in which more sunspots with intense magnetic activity occur during the peak. STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images The rapid warming ...

Brace for impact: The sun just emitted the strongest solar flare in six years, which knocked out radio frequencies and could hit Earth in several days’ time, scientists warned. “This is likely ...

Taylor Cameron, a space weather forecaster at the Canadian Hazards Information Service, told Global News it’s difficult to predict specifically when a solar flare can erupt and which part of ...

[Related: Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA.] But these occurrences are still an increasing cause for concern given how dependent modern society is on global satellite communications.

(NEXSTAR) — A massive solar flare — the ... NASA notes that they can also cause “global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts.” At an X5, Sunday’s flare was much smaller than ...

They also have the possibility of creating global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts. How strong were the recent solar flares? The two solar flares that struck the Earth on Wednesday ...

The strongest category of solar flares ... poles small radiation doses," said the agency. "X flares also have the potential to create global transmission problems and worldwide blackouts." ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on ...