The Solar System

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These sunspot clusters produced a coronal mass ejection, or solar blast, that hit the Earth in 2003. Sunspots have been known to affect the Earth. Check out one that interfered with Earth communications on the next page.
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) via Getty Images