The universe is a vast, mysterious place, filled with phenomena that can both awe and alarm us. Among these cosmic events, ...

The flare Carrington had observed heralded a solar superstorm—an enormous electromagnetic outburst that sent billions of tons of charged particles hurtling toward Earth. (Another amateur English ...

In 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington noticed a huge flare on the sun – known as a white light solar flare – and that a day later there was a change in the earth’s magnetic field.

Solar flares have been studied for over a century since they were first observed by Carrington and Hodgson (1850) from the ground. However, their properties in the near-ultraviolet band were ...