ELi5: What is causing these recent burst of solar flares and should we be worried?

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Lately I’ve been seeing articles and reports of solar flares from the Sun which have been occuring a lot (I think 7 happened in 2023 alone so far) and I do not recall this high a frequency in recent years (I may be mistaken or they weren’t reported as such). But do we know what is possibly causing these and what do we expect the overall impact to be, other than electronic blackouts and satellite communication failures etc?

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What you’re also seeing is partly contributed to more reporting as humans have better detection and communication now than 10, 20, and 100 years ago about such events.

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