Our sun is reaching the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle, when the northern lights are most visible. The last peak was the weakest in a century - could 2024 make up for it?
Three decades had passed since Texas photographer Wesley Luginbyhl saw the northern lights in his home state. Then, in spring this year, he photographed them twice.says he never expected to pick up more than a faint red glow on the horizon in photos during April’s event, but as he drove north from Amarillo to Texahoma, “the entire northern horizon had a glow to it.” He captured incredibly bright colors–blue, pink, red and green–of the aurora, which he said was practically overhead.
“When there’s more energy, gets thicker and expands further south,” says Hampton. “I don’t think it is too wild a prediction to say that people in the midwest and maybe even lower midwest will have a good chance to see aurora once or twice during this solar cycle, but there are no guarantees,” he says. In the U.S., the 40th parallel runs through Provo, Utah; Boulder, Colorado; north Indianapolis; and Columbus, Ohio.
The dark area across the top of the sun in this image taken in October 2015 is a coronal hole, a region where the magnetic field is open to space. A high-speed solar wind stream that originated from this coronal hole resulted in several nights of auroras on Earth.Solar Cycle 25, started in December 2019.
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