These are important to keep up on. But before people worry about a Carrington event, remember getting hit with a CME straight on is like shooting a cue ball moving at 18k mph with a shotgun from 93 miles away.
If you try every day for a few million years, you WILL succeed—just not often.
Just as the earth goes through seasons as we circle and tilt traveling around the sun, our solar system is in the spiral Milky Way Galaxy that is spinning and creating varying seasons for our sun.