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Or it could also apply very energetic protons out in the space in the form of solar radiation storms. And these three types of events, solar flares, CMEs and fusion storms, they all add up. They all add up to a big threat, a serious threat to the infrastructure of even people on Earth. The risk varies from year to year over the course of the sun's 11-year magnetic cycle. At the end of each cycle, the sun's north and south poles flip, with magnetic activity peaking in the months before and after the flip, a period known as solar maximum, which is where we are now.