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

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

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 ...

While Earth’s magnetic field prevents widespread death from solar radiation ... even the most powerful geomagnetic storm in recorded history — the 1859 Carrington Event — had no noticeable ...

During the 1859 solar storm, it was visible in the tropics. A newspaper in Hawaii reported that the view in the Honolulu sky was almost as if they had been standing in the Arctic. Amid all this ...

Solar maximum is fast approaching ... or Saturday as a geomagnetic storm, according to NOAA. The most intense geomagnetic storm known to us took place in 1859, causing a power outage and wreaking ...

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.

In fact, the biggest solar storm on record happened in 1859, during a solar maximum about the same size as the one we're entering, according to NASA. That storm has been dubbed the Carrington ...