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A severe solar storm is pushing the aurora borealis south into the lower 48 states, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center. The northern ...
The best time to view the aurora is within an hour or two of midnight, or 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. How to photograph the northern lights If you're looking to photograph the aurora, National Geographic ...
Unlike terrestrial weather, scientists who forecast space weather – which includes the aurora – must rely on observations of the 93-million-miles-away sun to make their predictions.
The solar storms of May 2024 (also known as 2024 Mother's Day solar storm [1] or Gannon storm in memory of Jennifer Gannon, [2] a space weather physicist [3]) were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25.
Aurora australis seen from the ISS, 2017 [1]. An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
The aurora is expected to be bright and visible in multiple northern U.S. states Oct. 3 through Oct. 5 as well as from the lower Midwest to Oregon.
From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma—an ionized gas of protons and electrons—flying towards the Earth.
The weekend will kick off with a rare celestial show as the northern lights illuminate the night sky over the northern United States. Over the past few days, the sun has launched massive clouds of ...