Space weather can even knock out electric grids and create blackouts, as noted byNOAAs Space Weather Prediction Center.
This natural hazard needs to be taken seriously.
But the newly suggested scenarioswrong side failureare obviously much more worrisome.
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An illustration of the Sun interacting with the Earth’s magnetosphere.Illustration:NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith