Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar ...

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

What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused ...

Scientists have uncovered the most powerful solar storm ever, resetting what we know about space weather limits.

1, 1859, amateur astronomers Richard Carrington ... NASA spacecraft successfully completes closest-ever approach to the sun The solar storm knocked out GPS equipment on farms — and it could ...

Other solar storms in recent history show us just how much damage the sun's outbursts can cause here on Earth. The 1859 Carrington Event took down telegraph wires all over the world. The Halloween ...

the Gannon Storm was nowhere near as potent as the most energetic solar storm to take place in recorded history — the 1859 Carrington Event. Since the current solar cycle — the 11-year ebb and ...

Other massive solar particle storms have occurred around 994 AD ... class than the famous Carrington event in September 1859, when astronomer Richard C. Carrington observed the most powerful ...

we see as northern lights. 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 ...