Rajasthani Tau on Instagram: "This is what the Carrington Event looked like. In September 1859, humanity saw for the first time how dangerous our Sun could be. British astronomer Richard Carrington noticed a bright flash on its surface - the most powerful in the history of observations. 17 hours after that, a cloud of charged particles hit the Earth - a coronal mass ejection. That's how the event that went down in history as the Carrington Event began. The sky burst into flames. The aurora borea