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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up ... The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm in recorded history, now called the Carrington Event.

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.

1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world ... and by developing strategies for adjusting grid loads when solar storms are about to hit. In short, it's important to work now to minimize ...