In 1859 a solar storm made auroras visible near the tropics and set telegraph offices sparking. Today the same storm would hit the power grid.
Imagery:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Y. Beletsky/ESO
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
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