The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process. Sunspot R3664 ...

The post The Worst Solar Storm in History and What It Would Do Today appeared first on Explorersweb. ... Great sheets of light like Greek fire blanketed the sky. ... The solar flare of 1859, ...

Two massive solar storms appearing four days apart in the late summer of 1859 gave “the week the sun touched the earth” its name. The first one reached here Aug. 28, and the second one Sept. 1.

The largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event of 1859, may have been even rarer and more extreme than we thought, according to rediscovered magnetic data gathered at the time.

We are far more dependent on telecommunications technology than the people of 1859 were. A solar storm of the same intensity as the Carrington flare would wreak havoc on GPS systems and any other ...

This storm was so intense that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which forecasts solar storms and their impact on our planet, issued a storm warning for the first time in ...

The solar storm of 1859 — which ice core samples from Antarctica proved was twice as big as any other solar storm in the last 500 years — is now known as the Carrington Event in his honor.

Polar forests may have just solved a solar storm mystery. The 1859 Carrington event may be traceable for the first time — thanks to Arctic trees.

A solar storm the size of the Carrington Event could knock out the backbone of the Internet. ... On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically.

An illustration shows solar flares on the surface of the sun. A scientist is predicting a massive solar storm could disrupt the internet for months sometime in the next decade.