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ERUPTIONS on the sun’s surface may spark similar blasts across the star. The finding could help improve the forecasting of these eruptions, which disrupt power grids on Earth.
Solar eruptions are known to prompt further explosions nearby. But when two major eruptions, separated by hundreds of thousands of kilometres, both occurred on 1 August, and of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, California, wondered whether they were connected.
The pair turned to detailed images of the sun from August.…
