一项发表在《空间天气》期刊上的新研究澄清了一个长期的历史谜团。1科学家发现，2013年在1871年《自然》期刊发表的匿名报告中记录的1841年10月埃克塞特铁路磁暴事件，其日期很可能是笔误，真实的铁路中断事件发生在数年之后。1这项研究证实，自电气技术问世以来，人类社会就一直在经历空间天气事件的影响。1
1859年发生的卡林顿事件被认为是有科学记录以来最强大的地磁风暴。1在这场地磁灾难期间，极光的亮度足以让人们借其光线阅读报纸，同时诱发的地磁电流导致电报站内出现火花和火灾。1电报作为1830年代新出现的技术，在卡林顿事件中遭到严重破坏。1值得注意的是，一些电报操作员在断开电源后，仍能利用强大的极光电流继续收发信息。1
Researchers have clarified a long-standing puzzle surrounding a nineteenth-century space weather event, with findings published in the journal Space Weather 1. A report documenting an 1841 railway disruption in Exeter, England, discovered in an 1871 anonymous article in Nature, appears to contain a dating error 1. According to the new research, the actual rail outage likely occurred several years after the recorded 1841 date 1.
The study underscores how human society has been vulnerable to space weather phenomena since the advent of electrical technology 1. The 1859 Carrington event stands as the most powerful geomagnetic storm in the scientific record 1. During that storm, auroras shone brightly enough to allow people to read newspapers by their light, while induced electrical currents sparked fires at telegraph stations 1. Telegraph technology, which had first emerged in the 1830s, suffered devastating damage from geomagnetic currents during the Carrington event 1. Some telegraph operators discovered they could continue transmitting and receiving messages after cutting power, relying instead on the powerful auroral currents themselves 1.
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