Some more facts about the magnetic storm..

Some more facts about the magnetic storm from the sun to the Earth

The solar bursts would have enveloped Earth in magnetic fireworks matching the largest magnetic storm ever reported on Earth, the so-called "Carrington event of 1859." The dominant mode of communication at that time, the telegraph system, was knocked out across the United States, literally shocking telegraph operators. Meanwhile, the Northern Lights lit up the night sky as far south as Hawaii. In a paper that already appeared on Tuesday, March 18, in the journal," Nature Communications", former UC Berkeley post doctoral fellow and research physicist Ying D. Liu, now a professor at China's State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, UC Berkeley research physicist Janet G. Luhmann and their colleagues report their analysis of the magnetic storm, which was detected by

" NASA's STEREO " - a spacecraft. Based on their analysis of the 2012 event, Liu, Luhmann, and their STEREO colleagues concluded that a huge outburst on the sun on July 22 propelled a magnetic cloud through the solar wind at a peak speed of more than 2000 kilometers per second, four times the typical speed of a magnetic storm. It tore through Earth's orbit, but luckily, Earth and the other planets were on the other side of the sun at that time.