#coronalmassejection
The largest coronal mass ejection just happened, but it was on the opposite side of the sun, and didn't hit Earth, so we got lucky. Had it hit us, it might have been another "Carrington Event". The Carrington Event happened in 1859 and knocked out and even caused sparks and fires in telegraph stations. Back in 1859, there wasn't much in the form of electrical wiring -- it was mostly telegraph wires. The world is very different today.
Wow! Sun just produced a Carrington like event, but we got super lucky - Anton Petrov
#solidstatelife #electricity #astronomy #coronalmassejection