On September 1, 1859, the Carrington Event lit up the skies and wreaked havoc on the early telegraph system. But what if such a massive solar storm struck today?

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up ... now called the Carrington Event. These solar storms can send out large clouds of electrified gas and dust at ...

On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur ... when a solar storm roughly a third less powerful than the Carrington event knocked out the power grid serving more than six ...

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 ... Carrington and the awestruck people of the subtropical Atlantic saw were related. The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm in ...