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

What did the sun look like before the devastating 1859 Carrington Event? Sketches from astronomer ... 9% and 14% of the solar disk's width. Sunspot activity has increased dramatically in early ...

On September 1, 1859, the Carrington Event lit up the skies and wreaked ... Elon Musk says he's refocusing on Tesla. Satellite images show Musk's growing business empire in Texas.

The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process. Sunspot R3664 ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly ... light that appeared in the sunspot group, which ought not to have been there.” What Carrington and the awestruck ...

Extreme solar storms such as the 1859 Carrington Event can play havoc with technology ... consequences for our technological way of life. Sunspot activity rises and falls on an 11-year cycle ...

A giant sunspot cluster rivaling the one that caused the Carrington Event in 1859 could trigger a cannibal coronal mass ejection. But this is unlikely to cause major problems A sunspot cluster as ...

The vast size of Sunspot AR3664 rivals Carrington's sunspot of 1859, as depicted in this image ... Read more: The Carrington Event: History's greatest solar storm Although studies suggest ...

The vast size of Sunspot AR3664 rivals Carrington's sunspot of 1859, as depicted in this image ... this week could cause a new Carrington Event, according to Spaceweather.com.

On February 14 the sun erupted with the largest solar flare seen in four years—big enough to interfere with radio communications and GPS signals for airplanes on long-distance flights.