The Carrington Event of 1859 is the largest recorded account ... now known as the Miyake Event. That solar flare produced the largest and fastest rise in carbon-14 ever recorded.

The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm ... large wires since the Carrington Event. However, our reliance on electricity has only grown exponentially. A flare of similar–or ...

The Carrington event consisted of a powerful solar flare that produced the second of a rare pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs)—gigantic magnetic eruptions of heated plasma belched into space.

“While we have no evidence of such an event, excluding it with certainty would require continuous and systematic monitoring of the Sun,” he tells Physics World. The most intense solar flare in ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation ... The most intense solar storm was the so-called “Carrington Event” of Sept. 2, 1859, when astronomer Richard C. Carrington observed a blast ...

Some caught fire. The storm came to be known as “the Carrington Event,” named for a British astronomer who observed a solar flare at the same time while studying sunspots and linked the two ...

The worst case ever recorded was on Sept. 2, 1859, when the so-called Carrington Event—a massive solar flare—gave electric shocks to telegraph operators. According to a study, if that happened ...

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 ...