article_snippet.sent: Solar flares can damage satellites and have an enormous financial cost.
article_snippet.sent: The charged particles can also threaten airlines by disturbing the Earth's magnetic field.
article_snippet.sent: Very large flares can even create currents within electricity grids and knock out energy supplies.
article_snippet.sent: Geomagnetic storms are more disruptive now than in the past because of our greater dependence on technical systems that can be affected by electric currents.
article_snippet.sent: In the large scale, magnetic flux ropes are found in the interplanetary magnetic clouds, which may interact with Earth’s magnetic field to generate geomagnetic storms,’ the researchers wrote in the researchers paper.