A person takes a photo of Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights in Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, May. 11, 2024.
We live in the sun's vast solar environment which occasionally puts us directly in the path of powerful outbursts emanating from its surface to create dazzling displays of northern lights.A person takes a photo of the northern lights in Vancouver on Saturday, May 11. Many night sky enthusiasts reported seeing the northern lights more clearly on their phone or camera than with the naked eye. division of the U.S.
Gunjan Sinha, a geophysicist in Saskatchewan, stitched together six photos that he took from an area very close to Saskatoon to generate this panoramic image. The photos were taken at around 1:00 a.m. CT on May 11, 2024. On May 14, 2024, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these views of the sun emitting the strongest solar flare yet in our current solar cycle. We depend on the sun for our very existence. It provides our planet with heat and light that keeps the temperature just right for life. It allows photosynthesis to take place in plants at the bottom of the food chain. Wind and weather are driven by the sun.
The solar activity that can reach out and create geomagnetic storms on Earth originate from the sun's outer corona, as seen in this image of the 2024 solar eclipse taken in Dallas.
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