Recently, the media warned of a catastrophic mass ejection from the sun that could hit Earth. Then nothing happened. But will it stay that way? Author and scientist Christian Mähr explains what a solar storm actually is and whether something like it could hit Earth – including melting wires, failing radio networks and billions of dollars in damage.
In August 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington observed several powerful outbursts on the Sun, now known as the Carrington Event. A so-called ‘coronal mass ejection’ left the sun and made its way to Earth at a speed of 2,000 kilometers per second, arriving eighteen hours later. What were the consequences? Northern Lights have been sighted in the Northern Hemisphere, all the way to the Caribbean and West Africa. The telegraph network partially collapsed because the wires burned out… Nothing else happened.
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