The Carrington Event of 1859 was a glimpse of what our star is capable of under the right circumstances, the implications of which are sobering indeed given the web of delicate connections we’ve ...

A massive solar flare, followed by a series of coronal mass ejections, caused the Carrington Event, which happened on September 1, 1859. The event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused ...

The Carrington Event took place in September 1859 and is one of history's largest solar storms. Events like this can wreak havoc on our technological world.

A magnetogram recorded at the Greenwich Observatory in London during the Carrington Event of 1859. The lower line (D) represents compass direction; the upper line (H) represents horizontal force.

The Carrington Event of 1859 has become a kind of sun-powered bogeyman. It was a solar storm that, today, would disrupt nearly every society in the world.

The largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event of 1859, may have been even rarer and more extreme than we thought, according to rediscovered magnetic data gathered at the time.

The 1859 Carrington Event. On Thursday, Sept. 2, 1859, at roughly 11:18 a.m. in the town of Redhill outside London, Carrington was investigating a group of dark specks on the sun known as sunspots ...

The 1859 Carrington event may be traceable for the first time — thanks to Arctic trees. Polar trees contain records of past solar storms not always detectable in lower-latitude trees, ...

To learn about what a really significant solar storm can do, look no further than the Carrington Event of 1859. The Carrington Event. The Carrington Event is named after British astronomer Richard ...

A massive solar flare, followed by a series of coronal mass ejections, caused the Carrington Event, which happened on September 1, 1859. The event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused auroras ...