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 ...

“In a world that is now so dependent on electricity and electronics, a similar event has the potential to cause widespread disruptions and damage to the electronics aboard Earth-orbiting satellites, ...

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 ...

Such phenomena indicate the impacts of a solar coronal ... Such extreme storms are rare. In recent studies, two such storms stand out: the Carrington storm in September 1859 and the New York ...

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 ...