Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up ... now called the Carrington Event. These solar storms can send out large clouds of electrified gas and dust at ...

The Carrington Event of 1859 is the largest recorded account of a geomagnetic storm, but it is not an isolated event. Geomagnetic storms have been recorded since the early 19th century ...

A Carrington-class storm could fry more transformers ... One on the order of the 1859 event could take out the entire grid, sending hundreds of millions of people back to a preelectric way of ...

One of the most notable historical geomagnetic storms is the Carrington event of 1859, which is often cited as the most intense geomagnetic storm on record. Recent studies have utilized historical ...

Recently, the colossal sunspot AR3664 has drawn attention for its immense size, reaching proportions comparable to the legendary Carrington sunspot of 1859. NASA has released a composite image ...

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