to northern from vinay 859 there was a huge solar flare or a massive eruption from the sun the only electrical system in place then was the telegraph and it broke down. and the telegraph is relatively robust compared to the microchips that we now use all over the place in space and airplanes if there's another flare like that and we don't know how often they occur then we have no idea what it would do but we do know it would have a much greater impact today. to help them predict storms on the sun european researches have developed a new solo over to assess and i that will soon launch into space its mission to report back to earth with the solar weather forecast. for all of the tide of violence and solar storms we see on the sun a caused by relatively small struck shows in its magnetic field that's why solar researches want to examine it with as much precision as possible they hope that will tell them how and when such storms begin to brew to do that their solar satellite has to get as close as possible to the sun and observe it with several different telescopes. and with some sort of. with the