New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-reveals-strongest-solar-event-bc.html

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m_f@discuss.online · 8 pts · 1y

Copying my comment here from the post over in !discuss@discuss.online:

Thought this was interesting. It references another event I hadn't heard of:

The model confirmed that the detected solar event was approximately 18% stronger than the notorious AD 775 event—until now the strongest solar storm ever recorded in tree-ring archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spike

Over on HN, someone wrote this:

On the other hand, would allergy sufferers be marvelling at the removal of all the dust and pollen? This would be like the outdoors becoming a giant anti-static dust remover.

Not something I've heard about before, but that would be super interesting

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Would be a lot cooler if it had happened five years earlier

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Or later.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Oh, right. What you said.

Krudler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

If anything like The Carrington Event happens again before we get mitigation strategies in place, our society instantly crumbles

goofus@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y