The peak storm activity could continue into early 2025, which would give the Philly region at least a shot at seeing the aurora as the nights lengthen.
The northern lights, or the aurora borealis, appear in the sky over Rat Lake in Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories last month. The solar storms that ignite the aurora were especially plentiful in August.The numbers of sunspots, those sometimes planet-size solar storms that can ignite dramatic displays of the northern lights, have reached their highest levels in more than 20 years, space scientists say.
“We won’t know the exact peak until we’ve moved well past it,” said Bryan Brasher, project manager at NOAA’s, in Boulder, Colo. “Even after the peak, though, high solar activity can continue for several years. It’s also possible that the cycle could have a double peak, where solar activity dips and then rises again before the final decline.”
Scientists now know that the spots actually are intense magnetic storms that appear dark because they are cooler than the rest of the sun’s surface.The more-powerful storms on the sun can result in coronal mass ejections that launch billions of charged particles toward Earth’s magnetic fields., leading to what NASA described as “the strongest solar storm to reach earth in two decades — and possibly one of the strongest displays of auroras on record in the past 500 years.
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