The northern lights were seen across the U.S. thanks to a powerful G5 geomagnetic storm.
Images taken from space have revealed the spectacular extent of the far-reaching northern lights this weekend.These gorgeous aurorae were visible from all 50 U.S. states on the night of May 10 and were triggered by a powerful G5 geomagnetic storm.This geomagnetic storm—caused by a train of coronal mass ejections fired toward us from the sun—was the most powerful that we have seen since 2003.
Such conditions are rare as they require a substantial activity to be present on the sun's surface for starters,' Daniel Brown, an associate professor in astronomy and science communication at Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, told Newsweek.'So there needs to be a large strong and complex sunspot there with substantial potential for flares, i.e. releasing massive energies built up through tension in the ever-twisting magnetic field lines in these regions.
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