(WSVN) - The sun put on quite the show this past weekend.

It fired off its biggest solar flare since 2017.

NASA scientists called it an X-class eruption — the most powerful of its type.

The solar flare was so big it caused a radio blackout over the Atlantic Ocean and Coastal areas.

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