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The Sun Gets Feisty, Throwing Off Three X-Class Flares Within 24 Hours


ding toward solar maximum (which is likely to be about a year away) and as it does, there will be more sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Over the last 24 hours there has been three, yes three X-class flares, the first peaking at X1.9, the second 1.7 and the final one a mighty 6.3.

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