Earth will be afforded even more dazzling displays of aurora borealis activity.
Did you see it? Northern lights visible across Philadelphia region
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in Moscow, Idaho.The northern lights, or aurora borealis - and their southern hemisphere counterpart, the southern lights, or aurora australis - are "the last step of processes" from energy that originates from the sun, Elizabeth Macdonald, a space physicist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told ABC News.
"That's where the area of the country is more favorable to a more southward progression of the aurora," he said. "They are visible in more places than ever before," Melanie Fish, a travel expert at Expedia Group, told ABC News.
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