Space Weather: Electro-Magnetic Sun Storms or Northern Lights

 

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A Looming Existential Solar Threat
May 27, 2021 Recent articles highlight an existential threat that we continue to ignore at our peril. Nadia Drake writes in National Geographic that the sun is getting ...
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A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event ...

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E.W. Culgan, a telegraph manager in Pittsburgh, reported that the resulting currents flowing through the wires were so powerful that platinum contacts were in danger of melting and "streams of ...
 

Solar Flare Sets Telegraph Offices on Fire 1-2 Sept 1859 ...

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The sunspots quickly tangled the Sun's magnetic field lines in their area and produced bright, observed solar flares and one — likely two — Coronal Mass Ejections, one major. The massive solar storm impacted our planet on 1-2 September 1859, causing widespread disruption to electrical and Telegraph services and spawning auroras visible in the tropics.

 

7 times solar storms have affected Earth - ABC News

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A solar storm known as the 'Carrington event' disrupted telegraph systems around the world in 1859. In Boston, telegraph operators reported they were still able to send messages even when they disconnectedthe machines' batteries, relying instead on the "celestial power induced in the telegraph lines by the magnetic disturbances".

 

Carrington Event - Wikipedia

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Estimates of the storm strength range from −800 nT to −1750 nT. Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks. Telegraph pylons threw sparks. Some telegraph operators could continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.

 

If the Massive Solar Flare of 1859 (the "Carrington Flare ...

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Telegraph machines scorched paper printouts, stunned operators with electric shocks, transmitted gibberish, and continued working for hours even after being unplugged from the batteries that powered them. The Earth itself was no longer "grounded"! For two days, the light show and electromagnetic storm continued, then faded.

 

Scary Facts About Solar Storms - Toptenz.net

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World communications at the time were limited to telegraph machines, and those machines took some serious damage when the storm hit. There are reports that telegraph poles were shooting sparks and operators were experiencing electric shocks through their telegraphs all across the planet.

 

Solar Storms: Are You Prepared? - Dr. Tindall

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In 1859, a huge geomagnetic storm called the Carrington Event, struck Earth. It took down telegraph machines and melted some telegraph wires, a few almost ½ inch in diameter. Solar storms are potentially always a threat and recent research shows one of the first maps of areas in the U.S. that are at high risk.

 

Here's What Would Happen if a Solar Storm Wiped Out ...

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Telegraph systems covering Europe and North America went down, as sparks flew from equipment, giving electric shocks to their human operators and even starting fires. Amid the electrified tumult, machines that had been disconnected from their power supplies eerily continued to relay their truncated messages.

 

Solar Storms and Machines? - practicalmachinist.com

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Solar storms do most damage at the Earth's surface to long lines, either power distribution or (pre-optical fiber) telephone/telegraph. Also things like railroad rails can pick up a nasty current. Most secondary damage is to equipment directly connected to these long lines, due to high induced voltages.

 

What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today?

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When a CME hits, the solar particles can interact with Earth's magnetic field to produce powerful electromagnetic fluctu

 

Carrington Event - Wikipedia

 
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The Carrington Event was a powerful geomagnetic storm on 1–2 September 1859, during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced the largest geomagnetic storm on record. The associated "white light flare" in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson. The storm cre…

 
Carrington Event | CME Research Institute
 
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What is the Carrington Event? Starting August 28th, 1859, for several days, our sun was busy. Astronomers viewed numerous sunspots and evidence of considerable magnetic activity. But, this was only a prelude to much larger ‘events’, starting with a large coronal mass ejection (or CME) which hit earth on September 1st.

A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event ...

 
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On the morning of September 1, 1859, amateur astronomer Richard Carrington ascended into the private observatory attached to his country estate outside of London. After cranking open the domes shutter to reveal the clear blue sky, he pointed his brass telescope toward the sun and began to sketch a cluster of enormous dark spots that freckled its surface. Suddenly, Carrington spotted what he described as two patches of i…
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The Carrington Event (2013) - IMDb

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May 11, 2013 · The Carrington Event: Directed by Rob Underhill. With Rusty Martin Sr., Katie Garfield, Chris Marrone, W. Scott Parker III. News of a massive solar flare goes viral. Soon after, the power is out. Phone's dead. Water taps are dry. Radio is static. Days pass with no news, just people getting more crazy. A week later the fight for survival has already begun.

 

We’re Overdue For The 150-year Carrington Event

 
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Oct 05, 2020 · In a Carrington Event, these waves of particles can be so massive that they take up half of the volume of space between the Earth and the Sun, some 93 million miles. CMEs this big can eject up to a billion tons of plasma into space.