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Auroras final evening!
On Friday, Might 10, 2024, space climate forecasters started predicting a “extreme” solar storm. When it got here, it was even stronger than predicted, at “excessive” ranges. So many individuals noticed superb shows of auroras final evening from locations at latitudes as little as Mexico, the Bahamas, western Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Chile and Argentina. Fantastic that so many received to see it! And the pictures got here pouring in. Those on this web page are only a style of what we obtained at EarthSky Group Photographs, and in our social media feeds. Thanks to all who submitted photos! What an evening!
The geomagnetic storming was on account of a minimum of 5 coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that left the sun this week, throughout a flurry of X flares. These chunks of sun materials struck Earth’s magnetic subject, inflicting the implausible auroral show. And the solar storm is still happening! Read the sun news for tonight’s prospects.
Why did the solar storms occur? The general purpose is that the sun is reaching the height of its 11-year cycle of exercise. This cycle is known as Photo voltaic Cycle 25. Watch our livestream from final Monday – a dialog with EarthSky founder Deborah Byrd and NASA heliophysicist C. Alex Younger – on why the sun has been blasting so many X flares.
Backside line: Auroras final evening (evening of Might 10-11, 2024) from “excessive” geomagnetic storming – which got here after every week of very excessive exercise on the sun – wowed thousands and thousands across the globe.
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