Study: Famous Space Weather Train Delay Actually Happened 7 Years Later

According to a study published in the journal Space Weather, an international research team has solved a 178-year-old mystery regarding an 1841 train delay in Exeter, England, determining through archival records that the geomagnetic disturbance actually occurred on October 18, 1848. The finding corrects a longstanding historical timeline of how solar activity impacts human infrastructure. … Read more