When plasma emissions from the sun collide with Earth’s atmosphere, magnetic storms can occur
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The Carrington event of 1859, the largest solar storm ever recorded, may have been even rarer and more extreme than we thought, according to rediscovered magnetic data collected at the time. .
In early September 1859, a massive solar flare was seen, producing a coronal mass ejection (a bubble of plasma and magnetic field ejected from the sun’s corona).
Source: www.newscientist.com
