The twin eruptions briefly disrupted radio signals across the dayside of Earth. (Image credit: Inset: NOAA GOES 19, graphic created in Canva Pro) The first X-flare peaked at 9:07 p.m. EDT on April 23 (0107 GMT April 24) (Image credit: NOAA GOES-19) The sun has certainly woken up! It has fired off not one but two powerful X2.5 solar flares within just 7 hours. The bursts of radiation from the flares triggered strong radio blackouts on the sunlit side of Earth — the first affecting parts of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and the second impacting East Asia. The active sunspot region is putting on quite the show before it rotates out of view. The X-flares were preceded by a flurry of M-class solar flares on April 23, along with a rare " sympathetic flare " where eruptions occurred in two separate sunspot regions on opposite sides of the sun . The second X-flare peaked at 4:14 a.m. EDT (0814 GMT).…