The strongest solar storm yet in 2016, according to Spaceweather.com, impacted Earth from Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning.
A huge solar storm that struck the Earth in 1859, called the Carrington Event, was so strong it lit telegraph lines on fire, according to some reports. That storm was caused by a a huge burst of hot plasma slamming into the Earth after being shot out from the sun.
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