Northern Lights, West Virginia

A gravel nation lane gently winds via this colourful rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a acquainted ogle. Curious curtains of aurora borealis or northern lights positively attain no longer create unparalleled appearances here, even supposing. Surprisingly shimmering auroral displays were display on that night at very low latitudes world huge, some distance from their unparalleled northern and southern excessive latitude realms. The huge auroral exercise used to be proof of a extreme geomagnetic storm led to by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an huge magnetized cloud of lively plasma. The CME used to be launched against Earth from the lively Sun following a highly efficient X-class solar flare. Growing Gallery: World aurora all via October 10/11, 2024