In 1859, human industrialization received a major reality check when the Carrington Event – a massive eruption from the sun, sent electrical currents ripping through the Sun’s atmosphere, whipping out telegraph systems, causing fires and chaos. Now, scientists say they have discovered evidence of the largest solar storm ever, and it was even bigger. The Sun is a beautiful but volatile cosmic object, and we’ve known for a long time that our Sun was capable of terrible things.
Most of the time, the effects of these storms on our electric grid are pretty mild. However, events like the Carrington and this new, unnamed storm are outliers that have the potential to leave things in ruin. Evidence of that yet unnamed solar storm, which scientists estimate to be the largest we have ever recorded, was found within the rings of ancient, subfossilized trees near the banks of the Drouzet River in the Southern French Alps.
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