Northern Lights 2024 May 11. Northern lights glow in the sky amid solar storm powerful solar flare activity made the aurora borealis visible unusually far south. This page provides a prediction of the aurora’s visibility tonight and tomorrow night in the charts.
The most powerful solar storm in more than 20 years struck earth friday triggering breathtaking celestial shows of the northern lights, also known as aurora borealis,. Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis.