On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859 ... The aurora was a result of the most intense solar storm in recorded history, now called the Carrington Event. These solar storms can ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit ... which ought not to have been there.” What Carrington and the awestruck people of the subtropical Atlantic saw were ...

The Carrington Event - named after its discoverer, British astronomer Richard Carrington - spanned August to September 1859. A barrage ... And then: "At last the aurora poured forth one vast ...