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Arkansas farmers have avoided solar flare disruptions
Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson were studying sun spots when a phenomenon happened that had never been observed by humans. Working independent of each other, the two scientists documented evidence of a solar flare on Sept. 1, 1859, according to NASA …