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It is 1 September 1859, in the morning. Carrington, a solar physicist sees a flash on the sun. A day later, the sky is on fire. The telegraph crackles and sparks. What happened?
What people saw was the result of a massive solar storm slamming into Earth. That was then. Now, anno 2025, this could happen again. Solar storms occur with clock-like regularity on the sun. Although the sun is some 150 million km away, these storms do sweep across the planet where we live, where thousands satellites orbit, planes fly from one side to the other side, electricity runs through enormous cables, where navigation systems show the way.
One of the missions of the STCE, the Belgian Space Weather Centre is to provide info on space weather and space weather impacts such that non-scientists understand. Polar lights and historical solar storms are a rewarding topic to introduce the topic, especially when it is combined with story telling. We will present one of our public lectures.
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