Everybody went to the countryside to see this great sign.Īccording to a statement from scientists who studied the event:Īcross the globe in feudal Japan, observers in Kyoto noted the same fiery red display in their skies, too. The following day, it happened the same at the same hour but it was not so great and terrifying. Nobody remembered having seen something like that … At midnight, great fire rays arose above the castle which were dreadful and fearful. He and his contemporaries were unaware of the connection between solar storms and the northern lights when he wrote of the 1582 event:Ī great fire appeared in the sky to the north, and lasted three nights.Īll that part of the sky appeared burning in fiery flames it seemed that the sky was burning. Pero Ruiz Soares was a 16th-century Portuguese author in Lisbon. That’s one reason researchers were happy to announce in March 2021 that they’ve unearthed new eyewitness accounts from a 1582 solar storm that startled skywatchers across the globe. But, with few events to go on, no one knows when the next powerful Earth-directed event will erupt on the sun. Next time, we might expect steeper consequences, since today’s world relies so heavily on technology. Scientists agree it’s only a matter of time until the next powerful solar storm affects earthly technologies. Going farther back, there’s the famous Carrington Event of 1859, which fried telegraph wires. One of the best-remembered events is the Quebec power grid failure of 1989, a 12-hour blackout in which millions of people found themselves in dark office buildings, stalled elevators, and underground pedestrian tunnels. Powerful solar storms can hammer Earth, causing major technology glitches. It was one of a number of powerful solar storms in 1972 that caused earthly effects: for example, widespread electrical and communication grid disturbances through large portions of North America as well as satellite disruptions.
This seahorse-shaped solar flare erupted from an active region on the sun on August 7, 1972.
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