A Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Across The US, And More Are on The Way

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A Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Across The US, And More Are on The Way
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The Sun's recent solar flare has caused radio disruptions across the United States, with more flares expected in the near future.

, which is when large amounts of material, in the order of billions of tons, are ejected out from the Sun into the Solar System.. This is when two eruptions occur in relatively quick succession; and the second eruption, traveling faster than the first, overtakes and subsumes its predecessor, resulting in a more powerful wave of plasma and magnetic fields traveling through the Solar System.

Actually, the magnetic field does a pretty good job of protecting Earth from the full brunt, so you're unlikely to notice much in your day-to-day. At night, though, we

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