Good news if you want to see the Northern Lights this winter – the key is in the sun’s current activity
The sun has achieved its solar maximum, in the time when activity like the northern light will be at its most limit.
During this year plenty of chances have been given to catch the colorful auroras from the northern light flicker across the night sky, and that’s awaited to carry on as the sun still now on its maximum – the reach of the top of its 11 year solar cycle.
Agents from NASA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel have communicated at a new conference this past Tuesday.
“While the solar maximum, the amount of sunspots, and because of that, the quantity of solar activity, reaches a higher level”, explained Jamie Favor, director of NASA’s Space Weather Program. “The growth in activity presents an interesting chance to know more and learn about the star that is more close to us – but in addition is the main cause of the real effects at Earth throughout our entire solar system”.
The peak of the activity is going to be waited to last another year, according to NASA.
and nitrogen, as result, the atmospheric particles gain energy. To be back in their original state, the particles releases that energy in light form, according to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Geophysical Institute website, which is the tacker of this huge phenomenon.
Just as auroras are created, Earth’s
Just as auroras are created, Earth’s magnetic field helps to direct again the particles toward the poles across a process that created a stunning display of rays, spirals and flickers that for millennia has amused the human species. If hues of green, red, blue and even pink dance about in the sky relys on the altitude of the collisions, as well as the atmosphere density and composition at the time.
The continuity of solar activity in 2025
“Solar Cycle 25 sunspot activity has just transcended expectations,” said Lisa Upton, co-chair of the Solar Cycle Prediction Panel. “Nevertheless, apart from seeing many new large storms, they are not that huge than what we could expect for the maximum phase of the cycle.”
The predictions of when and where one might see the northern lights still is a difficulty, but NOAA does support the idea that an aurora dashboard that should assist skygazers tracking the phenomenon.
