A powerful solar storm hit Earth back in 1582

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A powerful solar storm hit Earth back in 1582

Post by Dragon Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:50 pm

"A great fire appeared in the sky to the North, and lasted three nights," wrote a Portuguese scribe in early March, 1582.

Across the globe in feudal Japan, observers in Kyoto noted the same fiery red display in their skies, too.

Similar accounts of strange nighttime lights were recorded in Leipzig, Germany; Yecheon, South Korea; and a dozen other cities across Europe and East Asia.

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Post by Dragon Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:51 pm

A powerful solar storm hit Earth back in 1582 Apowerfulsol

Credit: NASA, ISS Expedition 23 crew

An aurora caused by a coronal mass ejection in 2010, as seen from the International Space Station.

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Post by Dragon Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:53 pm

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: NASA, Big Bear Solar Observatory

The ‘Seahorse Flare’, which caused a solar storm in August 1972.

The historical record seems to suggest that major storms like the one in 1582 are, at minimum, a once-in-a-century occurrence, and so we should expect one or more of them to hit Earth in the 21st century.

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