Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy known to impact electric power grids, navigation signals, radio communications 🌻 and can pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.

Intense currents driven by space weather can have severe impacts, damaging 🌻 or destroying critical infrastructure, interrupting the internet and other communications and leading to power outages. The federal government is already 🌻 making plans to prepare for and respond to the next big solar storm.