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 ...

On September 1, 1859, the Carrington Event lit up the skies and wreaked havoc on the early telegraph system. But what if such a massive solar storm struck today?

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit ... which ought not to have been there.” What Carrington and the awestruck people of the subtropical Atlantic saw were ...

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 ...