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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center says that the optimal viewing time is between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time.
Due to a severe solar storm, the northern lights were visible across several regions in the United States May 10 — and the rare phenomenon could continue throughout the weekend.
NOAA issued a G4-level watch in advance of the solar storm, predicting a big disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field. “Watches at this level are very rare,” said NOAA, which last issued ...
Despite the threat the solar storm poses to satellites, GPS signals and power grids, the storm watch is good news for aurora chasers: Because of the way the solar particles interact with Earth's ...
In August, the auroras were visible as far south as Alabama and west to northern California following a severe geomagnetic solar storm with at least five flares with ejections. News about our ...
The northern lights, also known as aurora borealis, are typically seen at high latitudes, but intense solar storms can make them visible much farther south than normal.
These storms are caused by coronal mass ejections associated with a recent solar flare from the Sun. The storm could cause some power fluctuations and disrupt radio and GPS signals. It could also ...
For the first time since January 2005, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch, warning that a concentration of energy flaring from the sun ...