WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot. Suddenly, a flash of intense white light burst from the sun's surface.

But near solar max, it's a different story—and every so often, Earth loses the sunspot lottery. For extreme solar weather, our high-water mark is often the Carrington Event of 1859: a powerful ...

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 ...

On September 1, 1859, the Carrington Event lit up the skies and wreaked havoc on the early telegraph system. But what if such a massive solar storm struck today?

No discussion of solar weather would be complete without nodding to extreme solar storms like the Carrington Event of 1859. As Solar Cycle 10 approached its peak, a massive sunspot complex ...

In 1859, Richard Carrington, a wealthy brewery owner and ... Right now, we are at or near an unexpectedly large peak in the sunspot number and chances are we will continue to get large magnetic ...

For instance, one of the strongest solar storms in documented history, which occurred in 1859, caused telegraph ... their link to the better-understood sunspot cycles remains a mystery.

1 and 2, 1859. It’s known today ... 500 years — is now known as the Carrington Event in his honor. When the intertwined magnetic field lines over a sunspot group abruptly rearrange themselves ...

The reappearance of the AR 13697 sunspot has led scientists to believe ... causing chaos orders of magnitude greater than the Carrington Event. And while it may seem like a once-in-several ...

The solar flares originated from a gigantic sunspot, a dark area on the ... The most powerful geomagnetic storm on record, the Carrington Event of 1859, reportedly sparked fires at telegraph ...

scientists warn that the sunspot is still capable of producing stronger flares. For reference, in 1859, a massive solar storm, known as the Carrington Event, caused telegraph lines to spark and ...