Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe - space - 23 March 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views
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Todd Suomela on 27 Mar 09The most serious space weather event in history happened in 1859. It is known as the Carrington event, after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: "two patches of intensely bright and white light" emanating from a large group of sunspots. The Carrington event comprised eight days of severe space weather.
