It was a 'total light show' in the North Bay on Thursday evening. A KTVU photographer captured an astronomical phenomenon known as a geomagnetic storm. The intense aurora produced by the storm is more commonly referred to as the Northern Lights.
It was a "total light show" in the North Bay on Thursday evening. A KTVU photographer captured an astronomical phenomenon known as a geomagnetic storm. The intense aurora produced by the storm is more commonly referred to as the Northern Lights. Our photographer, Jaden Schaul, was set up near St. Helena where he captured amazing hues of blue and purple in the sky. He wrote on social media that the lights were visible to the naked eye. He posted photos as early as 7:30 p.m.
Events of solar coronal mass ejections send roughly a billion tons of plasma from the sun, with its embedded magnetic field, to Earth, according to NOAA.When that solar material arrives at Earth, it can result in a geomagnetic storm.NOAA says, "Aurora can often be observed somewhere on Earth from just after sunset or just before sunrise." The aurora is not visible during daylight hours. The conditions in Napa were just right to take in the spectacle of the Aurora Borealis.
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