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.

We have a pretty good template for this one, actually, because the Earth was hit with a very powerful solar storm in 1859. ... which woke up the people living in a town in Columbia.

In 1859, auroras were ... or the Halloween storm of 2003, when the town of Malmö in southern Sweden suffered the same consequences. ... solar storms and their interaction with planet Earth.

This historically large sunspot, now 15 times wider than Earth, rivals the one linked to the colossal solar storm of 1859.

In 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was studying the Sun when he witnessed the most intense geomagnetic storm recorded in history. The storm, triggered by a giant solar flare, sent brilliant ...

It was known as “the week the sun touched the earth.” In late August and early September 1859, two geomagnetic solar superstorms walloped our planet, illuminating the nighttime sky of ...

On the evening of Aug. 28, 1859, a telegraph in New York took on a life of its own. As its operator J. C. Crosson fought to transmit messages, the current fluctuated wildly. The battery powering ...

Amazingly, in 1859, before all that monitoring equipment was put in place, an astronomer spotted the flare before the storm reached Earth. Carrington's observation. The figures labeled A and B ...

The strongest geomagnetic solar storm in history occurred on September 1-2, 1859, disrupting electricity on Earth. A combination of solar events caused “the most potent disruption of the planet’s ...

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.

Two massive solar storms appearing four days apart in the late summer of 1859 gave “the week the sun touched the earth” its name. The first one reached here Aug. 28, and the second one Sept. 1.