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

What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused ...

Extreme solar storms such as the 1859 Carrington Event can play havoc ... Among them was Richard Carrington, an amateur skywatcher in a small town called Redhill, near London in England.

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 ...

Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar ...

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

If a solar storm as big as the Carrington ... On Thursday, Sept. 2, 1859, at roughly 11:18 a.m. in the town of Redhill outside London, Carrington was investigating a group of dark specks on ...

This made him the first scientist to make that connection. The solar storm of 1859 — which ice core samples from Antarctica proved was twice as big as any other solar storm in the last 500 years ...

The reappearance of the AR 13697 sunspot has led scientists to believe that more solar storms could be on the way (Getty/iStockphoto) A storm of any greater magnitude is capable of impacting not ...

For instance, one of the strongest solar storms in documented history, which occurred in 1859, caused telegraph systems across Europe and North America to malfunction and spark into flames.

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published ... signalling that a massive solar storm was underway. This storm, later named the Carrington event, was one of the strongest in documented ...