During the second weekend of May, 2024, much of the world was treated to an exquisite Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) display, after a large cluster of magnetically active sunspots released a series of high powered coronal mass ejections and solar flares directed at Earth. This led the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch; the first since 2005. The solar storm that followed resulted in very active Aurora Borealis displays across much of the Northern Hemisphere, wowing spectators with brilliant curtains of greens and pinks in the nightsky.

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