No solar superstorm as powerful as the 1859 event has occurred ... in several centuries. But even storms of much smaller magnitude can cause considerable damage, especially as humans become ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up ... The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm in recorded history, now called the Carrington Event.

The particles can infiltrate power grids, damage transformers ... Historically, the Carrington Event of 1859 demonstrated the havoc solar storms could wreak, disabling telegraph systems across ...

The Carrington sunspot is renowned for the intense solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) it unleashed in August and September 1859, leading to severe geomagnetic storms. NOAA forecasts ...