What Surya deva can do? An article published in the journal The Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences tells us that Solar storm can destroy civilization. A solar storm is a disturbance on the Sun, which can emanate outward across the heliosphere, affecting the entire Solar System, including Earth and its magnetosphere, and is the cause of space weather in the short-term with long-term patterns comprising space climate. The most powerful flare ever observed is thought to be the flare associated with the 1859 Carrington Event.

Scientists have been able to chart out the solar storm from ancient tree rings that were found in the French alps. It showed evidence of a dramatic spike in radiocarbon levels some 14,300 years ago. That spike was the result of massive solar storm, the biggest ever that was devastative on human civilization. If similar solar happens today, it could knock the power grid offline for months and destroy the Internet and other infrastructure we rely on for communications. The researchers have warned that the extreme nature of the newly discovered event is a warning for future.

“Extreme solar storms could have huge impacts on Earth. Such super storms could permanently damage the transformers in our electricity grids, resulting in huge and widespread blackouts lasting months,” said Tim Heaton, professor of applied statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. “They could also result in permanent damage to the satellites that we all rely on for navigation and telecommunication, leaving them unusable. They would also create severe radiation risks to astronauts”

Scientists have found nine extreme solar storms, or Miayake Events, that happened in the last 15,000 years. The most recent of them happened in the years 993 AD and 774 AD, but the newly found one was twice as powerful as those. The largest solar storm that scientists were able to actually observe and study happened in 1859, and is known as the Carrington Event. It caused vast disruption to society, destroying telegraph machines and creating a bright aurora so bright that birds behaved as if the Sun was rising.