Mysterious Carrington Solar Storm

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Channel: Possumkicker · 2014 · Travel & Events

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The solar storm of 1859, also known as the Carrington Event was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm in 1859 during solar cycle 10 A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record. The associated "white light flare" in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by English astronomers Richard C. Carrington and Richard Hodgson. Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.

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