carrington event

  1. Jan

    G2-class geomagnetic storm hitting Earth today

    Geomagnetic storm hitting Earth on Thursday — all the tech it could knock out Space weather watchers have warned that geomagnetic storms could hit Earth around mid-day on Thursday, following an explosion on the Sun earlier this week. Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory detected the explosion of...
  2. Jan

    Solar superstorms could cause extended Internet outages

    Internet Apocalypse — The threat of solar superstorms no-one is prepared for One of the greatest threats to Internet infrastructure, with the potential for global impact, is a solar superstorm. Nine years ago, Earth experienced a near miss from a coronal mass ejection (CME), the most powerful...
  3. J

    Undone by the Sun

    Undone by the Sun It sounds like something from an overblown disaster film, or the opening scenes of some post-apocalyptic drama. A violent solar storm ejects a massive chunk of our sun’s corona and sends it on a collision course with Earth. A s the coronal mass hits our magnetosphere...
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