Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy known to impact electric power grids, navigation signals, radio communications and can pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
Intense currents driven by space weather can have severe impacts, damaging or destroying critical infrastructure, interrupting the internet and other communications and leading to power outages. The federal government is already making plans to prepare for and respond to the next big solar storm.
While Universal created its icons of horror during the era of black-and-white film, the peak of horror movies in the '80s gave us new icons that to this day live on in popular culture.
Of course, the first golden age of horror began in the early 1920s during the silent film era, and lasted all the way into the 1940s, before the genre became too diluted for audiences to keep up with.