The huge sunspot has the potential to send a solar flare our way. Whether it will or not remains to be seen.
, interfering with radio communication networks and navigation systems. This can cause problems for people who work in the marine or aviation industries, among others.
That said, it's worth noting that an M-class flare would probably not be particularly disruptive in any case. Although M-class flares are the second-strongest type of solar flares, they only tend to cause moderate radio blackout events. An M9 flare, the strongest of the M-class, might cause loss of radio contact for tens of minutes in affected areas of Earth and degradation of low-frequency navigation signals. M-class flares are also common.
It's the less common X-class flares that can cause more serious trouble. X-class flares are the strongest type of flare. An X20 flare, for instance, would cause complete high frequency radio blackout on the daylight side of Earth for several hours, and boats and planes would not be able to use navigation signals during this time.
Thankfully such flares are very rare, estimated to occur less than once every 11 years—the length of an average
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