Extreme solar storms ... Carrington described it as a "white light flare" according to NASA spaceflight. The whole event lasted about five minutes. The flare was a major coronal mass ejection (CME ...

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

If a solar storm as ... He also estimated that the event's CME likely carried about 3 X 10^32 ergs of kinetic energy. The Carrington Event triggered a geomagnetic storm on Earth, Hudson noted ...

Here's everything you need to know about the dangers of a major solar storm and why the threat of a new Carrington Event looms large ... A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a massive burst of ...

The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm in recorded history, now called the Carrington Event. These solar ... when surges like that happen.” CME blast and subsequent impact ...

Solar flares are relatively common events, but the flare that set off the ‘Carrington Event’ on Sept ... s called a coronal mass ejection or CME. This is when a large concentration of plasma ...