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Is NASA Prepared for the Next ‘Carrington Event’? The Risk of a 21st-Century Solar Superstorm
The universe is a vast, mysterious place, filled with phenomena that can both awe and alarm us. Among these cosmic events, ...
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The Solar Flare That Could Send Us Back to the Stone Age
The most famous solar flare event, known as the Carrington Event, occurred in 1859. During this solar storm, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Operators were shocked by the electricity ...
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Sun Struck
On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur ... causing the tremendous plasma explosions called solar flares. Such flares release the energy equivalent of hundreds of millions ...
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Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean (video)
The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...