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 ...

Solar storms are rare but powerful events that could cause lasting damage to our electrical grid. If a storm similar to the 1859 Carrington Event were to strike today, it could knock out power for ...

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 ...