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

In 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington saw a blast of white light on the surface of the sun. This was the ... However, during the Carrington Event, people witnessed the auroras all the ...

Across the Atlantic Ocean in England, a wealthy amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington was also watching the cosmos. However, Carrington had his eyes on the Sun and its various sunspots and ...

Sunspot R3664 now stretches across nearly 124,300 miles (200,000 kilometers), almost as big as the sunspot that appeared on the Sun’s surface during the Carrington Event—the most intense ...

Editor’s note: This article was first published in 2022 and has been updated. The Space Weather Prediction center issued its first G4-level storm watch since 2005 on May 9, 2024. This is a ...

As the Sun approaches the solar maximum – the height of its activity during its 11-year cycle ... storms that dwarf even the Carrington Event. This includes one that took place between ...