The solar time bomb: how the Sun could plunge us into chaos at any moment

Yellowstone super-volcano is a time bomb, the Sun is a time bomb. With our luck they will explode in the same moment, the hugest BOOM the human species has ever seen. No coffee and no internet connection, yoy may not entirely want to wake up the next morning. You already know how the super-volcano may add his effects to the climate change, and you may want to find out that in the year 1859 astronomer Richard Carrington observed a brilliant flash of white light on the Sun's surface.

This event, now known as the Carrington Event, remains the largest recorded solar storm in history. It produced extraordinary auroras, visible not only near the poles but also as far as the equator.

Though the Carrington Event may seem like a distant historical occurrence for humans (because for the solar system that even happened yesterday), astronomers estimate that storms of this magnitude strike Earth roughly every 150 years. In today’s world, where our dependence on internet. electricity and technology that problem is far greater than in 1859, because a similarly powerful coronal mass ejection could wreak catastrophic havoc, disrupting power grids, crippling satellites including Elon's satellites, and plunging society into chaos. Disturbingly, we are overdue for such an event and woefully unprepared to face its consequences.