The northern lights are expected to be visible on back-to-back nights this weekend, according to the National Oceanic and ...

Tuesday’s auroral forecast follows “minor” geomagnetic storms that disrupted Earth’s magnetic field over the last two days, increasing the Kp index to around four and boosting a chance to see the ...

“There was no one else doing northern lights tours in the world,” said Masa Ando, a 34-year veteran of the Japanese tourism industry in Alaska who today co-owns HAI Shirokuma Tours.

Key Background. Northern lights are caused by interactions between the sun’s solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, creating a collision of particles that produce light known as aurora.

The northern lights have been very active in 2024. ... "It arrived with a magnetic strength that's about six times the normal background level that's out there in space," he said.

The northern lights — also called aurora borealis — could be visible in Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, northern parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, New York ...

An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky in the early morning hours of April 24, 2023, near Washtucna, Wash. A solar storm forecast for Thursday, ...

Northern lights are fascinating. But while they are more common in northern regions such as Scandinavia or Alaska, they are rarely seen in Germany, as was the case in May this year.