In April 2023, an unexpectedly strong solar storm caught scientists and the world by surprise. On April 23, Earth was struck ...

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 ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

The aurora borealis is common in the Arctic and occasionally visible at lower latitudes during times of high solar activity. During the 1859 solar storm, it was visible in the tropics.

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 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.

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.

On Sept. 1, 1859, a solar storm of unprecedented power struck Earth. The large burst of electromagnetic energy sent huge voltage surging through telegraph wires, the only means of long-distance ...

The strongest solar flare in recorded history burst into Earth’s atmosphere in 1859, bathing both hemispheres in brilliantly colorful aurorae as it wreaked worldwide havoc on telegraph systems ...

For instance, one of the strongest solar storms in documented history, which occurred in 1859, caused telegraph systems across Europe and North America to malfunction and spark into flames. open ...