Ejections of plasma from the solar can create geomagnetic storms after they smash into Earth’s ambiance
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The most important recorded photo voltaic storm in historical past, the Carrington occasion of 1859, could have been even rarer and extra excessive than we thought, based on rediscovered magnetic knowledge gathered on the time.
In early September 1859, a large photo voltaic flare was seen and a coronal mass ejection – a bubble of plasma and magnetic area expelled from the solar’s corona – struck…
