In 1859, the Carrington Event unleashed a solar storm so powerful it lit up the night sky like daytime and caused chaos ...

The increasing interconnectedness of modern technology amplifies the dangers posed by solar storms. Global economies rely on real-time communication networks, financial systems, and logistics chains ...

“In a world that is now so dependent on electricity and electronics, a similar event has the potential to cause widespread disruptions and damage to the electronics aboard Earth-orbiting satellites, ...

No solar superstorm as powerful as the 1859 event has occurred since, so it is difficult to calculate what impact a comparable storm might have on today’s more wired world. A hint came with the ...

The Victorians also struggled with the effect of space weather in 1859 when a huge solar eruption caused a geomagnetic storm that interfered with railway signalling and telegraph lines.

For the solar origin, the group turned to largely ... Its size rivaled those of the Carrington storm in September 1859 and the NY Railroad storm in May 1921," Hayakawa said.

The three major solar storms in human history all happened in quick succession — in 1859, 1872 and 1921 — now over a century ago. The most intense solar storm was the so-called “Carrington ...