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 ...

In 1859, the Carrington Event unleashed a solar storm so powerful it lit up the night sky like daytime and caused chaos ...

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 ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

Even larger solar events have been discovered in recent history, which dwarf the Carrington event of 1859. Called Miyake events, these bursts have been recorded in tree ring and ice core data ...

One of the most notable historical geomagnetic storms is the Carrington event of 1859, which is often cited as the most intense geomagnetic storm on record. Recent studies have utilized historical ...