Could the 1859 Carrington Event Happen Again? ⚠️ #space #astronomy

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Did you know that in 1859, [music] a solar storm made telegraph machines work better when they were unplugged?

[00:00:06]September 1st, >> [music] >> 1859.

[00:00:09]Richard Carrington was sketching sunspots through his telescope when he saw something impossible. A brilliant white flash erupted [music] from the sun's surface. 18 hours later, the sky caught fire. Aurora lights blazed [music] across the entire planet. People in Cuba saw the northern lights. Gold miners [music] in the Rocky Mountains woke up thinking it was dawn and started making breakfast at 2:00 in the morning.

[00:00:30]But the telegraph [music] networks told the real story. Operators received electric shocks from their equipment.

[00:00:35]Telegraph lines sparked [music] and caught fire. Some machines kept sending messages even after their power was completely disconnected. One operator in Boston unplugged his telegraph and kept working for 2 hours [music] on storm energy alone. Scientists now call it the Carrington Event. If the same storm [music] hit today, it would destroy every satellite, crash the internet, and kill power grids worldwide. The damage would [music] reach 10 trillion dollars.

[00:01:00]Modern civilization ended by the sun.