Earth will be bombarded by intense solar storms next YEAR: Scientists predict we’ll reach ‘solar maximum’ in 2024 – with flares strong enough to cripple the world’s internet for WEEKS
About every 11 years, the sun goes through what’s known as ‘solar maximum’, when many bizarre dark spots appear on its surface. These ‘sunspots’ – which can cluster together and form what looks like an archipelago – are caused by massive changes in our star’s magnetic field. They also shoot out violent explosions of energy towards Earth, causing ‘solar
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