Solar Storms and Flares - NASA Science

Explaining The Universe on Instagram: "Follow (us) @ExplainingTheUniverse to learn something NEW every day 🧠 In September 1859, the world witnessed the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, now known as the Carrington Event. British astronomer Richard Carrington observed a sudden flash of light on the surface of the Sun, a solar flare of unprecedented intensity. Within just 17 hours, the resulting cloud of charged particles, a coronal mass ejection, slammed into Earth’s magnetic field, trigg