Washington: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recently captured a mid-level solar flare .
Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however-when intense enough-they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares.
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