Northern Lights May 11 2024. Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora australis). The blinking lights of a plane streak through the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, which is visible on may 11, 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. The space weather prediction center offers an experimental forecast map that showed on saturday the aurora may be visible saturday in a wide swath of the u.s., possibly in states including oregon.