WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot.

A solar storm is projected to impact Earth this Saturday, potentially bringing with it a dazzling celestial light show – and ...

Extreme solar storms ... Carrington described it as a "white light flare" according to NASA spaceflight. The whole event lasted about five minutes. The flare was a major coronal mass ejection (CME ...

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — ...

An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research ...

If a solar storm as ... He also estimated that the event's CME likely carried about 3 X 10^32 ergs of kinetic energy. The Carrington Event triggered a geomagnetic storm on Earth, Hudson noted ...

Here's everything you need to know about the dangers of a major solar storm and why the threat of a new Carrington Event looms large ... A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a massive burst of ...

To this day, the Carrington Event is considered the most intense solar storm in recorded history ... of the Royal Astronomical Society. The images show a large grouping of dark blobs that ...

The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm in recorded history, now called the Carrington Event. These solar ... when surges like that happen.” CME blast and subsequent impact ...

Solar flares are relatively common events, but the flare that set off the ‘Carrington Event’ on Sept ... s called a coronal mass ejection or CME. This is when a large concentration of plasma ...