Our star is a bubbling, charged ball of gas. It is anything but quiet. Sometimes solar flares are created when magnetic energy is released from the solar atmosphere. When this happens energized particles race towards Earth, arriving in minutes. How may these solar flares affect us?

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Our star is a bubbling, charged ball of gas. It is anything but quiet. Sometimes solar flares are created when magnetic energy is released from the solar atmosphere. When this happens energized particles race towards Earth, arriving in minutes. How may these solar flares affect us?