The Sun seems like it's displaying a lot of holiday lights just in time for the Christmas season as eruptions cause a massive surge in solar activity starting last Friday.

NASA considers this solar activity significant since it peaked into a brilliant display of X1.8-class flares sometime around 7:28 EST Friday night.

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According to the space agency, harmful radiation from the solar flare can't enter the Earth's atmosphere to affect us. But when the flares are intense enough, they can disturb the atmosphere, disrupt GPS and telecommunication signals.

This stunning holiday flare was a potentially dangerous wave of solar activity. X-class solar flares are classified as the most powerful ones. The 1.8 means this specific flare is rather small to medium in its class.

X3 flares are three times as powerful as an X1 solar flare and an X1 solar flare will be significantly stronger than any kind of M-class flare, which is notorious for causing small to medium blackouts and radiation storms.

These harmful flares can also release strong geomagnetic disturbances when these solar winds strike the Earth's magnetosphere. These auroras aren't only seen in the Northern Hemisphere but can also destroy magnetic navigation. Electrically charge ground induced currents can disturb power lines in underground cables.

Fortunately, this current flare, while beautiful, didn't cause any strong geomagnetic storm on the planet.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there was no geomagnetic activity over the weekend and just minor solar activity since Monday.

These images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveal the stunning imagery of the Sun's powerful solar flares that coincide with the festive holiday lights.

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