The solar superstorm of 1859 was the fiercest ever recorded. Auroras filled the sky as far south as the Caribbean, magnetic compasses went haywire and telegraph systems failed.

A recurrence of the 1859 solar superstorm would be a cosmic Katrina, causing billions of dollars of damage to satellites, power grids and radio communications. By Sten F. Odenwald & James L. Green.

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 ...

A solar 'superstorm' is coming and we'll only get 30-minute warning. They cause devastation, occur every 150 years – and the last one was in 1859 ...

Space.com: Researchers say a geomagnetic solar blast like one recorded in 1859 could do tens of billions of dollars in damage in our more tech-dependent age.

The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm on record, occurring in 1859. It was named after Richard Carrington, an amateur astronomer who observed the solar flare that triggered ...

Just shy of 162 years ago—on the morning of September 1st, 1859—a hobbyist astronomer named Richard Carrington peered through his telescope and noted, in the sky, “two patches of intensely ...

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.