Peter Basser wins ISMRM Gold Medal for Diffusion Tensor ...

X-class are the biggest flares—ten times stronger than M-class ones. They can cause radio blackouts throughout the world. This happened in 1859 when a solar flare shut down the telegraph system, which would be like shutting down the Internet today. The biggest danger with X-class solar flares is that they happen suddenly. ................
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