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 ...

The Carrington Event - named after its discoverer, British astronomer Richard Carrington - spanned August to September 1859. A barrage of charged particles from the sun caused a flurry of activity ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly ... light that appeared in the sunspot group, which ought not to have been there.” What Carrington and the awestruck ...