Aurora Borealis Photos May 2024. 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. In may 2024, the strongest geomagnetic storm in over two decades dazzled scientists and skywatchers alike.
Starting on may 7, at least seven coronal mass ejections, or cmes, charged toward earth and began storming our planet on may 10, which was when the. The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow in the sky over st mary’s lighthouse in.