In 1859, the Carrington Event unleashed a solar storm so powerful it lit up the night sky like daytime and caused chaos ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it was not from fireflies or a fireswamp. Instead, it was the Northern Lights–or aurora borealis. The aurora is ...

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.

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

The world was experiencing an electrical super storm ... Even larger solar events have been discovered in recent history, which dwarf the Carrington event of 1859. Called Miyake events, these ...

1921 and 1859. In the meantime, plenty of smaller storms have hit the planet. The sun has an 11-year cycle of activity with highs and lows, like a tide of radiation. The May storm came as solar cycle ...

The next big solar storm could plunge the world into darkness, disrupting power grids, satellites, and communications on a ...

Indonesia's National Research Agency (BRIN) partners with RISH Kyoto University & University of Colorado to study weather ...

Electromagnetic interference is already a problem for the world as it is produced by the source of all energy in our solar system ... same way as an EMP bomb. In 1859 a huge CME was so powerful ...