Just before dawn on November 11, the Sun seemingly snapped. A colossal X5.1-class solar flare erupted from an overactive sunspot, unleashing a wave of energy so powerful that it temporarily plunged parts of Earth’s daylight side into radio silence.

The flare originated from a sunspot region that had been bubbling with activity for days.
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