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This page provides a prediction of the aurora’s visibility tonight and tomorrow night in the charts below. The animations further down show what the aurora’s been up to over the last 24 hours and estimates what the next 30 minutes will be like.
Aurora, luminous phenomenon of Earth’s upper atmosphere that occurs primarily in high latitudes of both hemispheres; in the Northern Hemisphere auroras are called aurora borealis, aurora polaris, or northern lights, and in the Southern Hemisphere they are called aurora australis or southern lights.
Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), auroras are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called space weather.
Natural light shows in the sky have scientific causes. Learn what auroras are, how they form, and why aurora borealis and aurora australis create stunning colors.
An aurora is a natural light display that shimmers in the sky. Auroras are only visible at night, and usually only appear in lower polar regions.
Aurora borealis over Hamnoy in Norway. The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are luminous patterns that appear in high-latitude skies when energetic particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s upper atmosphere. The solar wind carries electrons and ions that are guided by our planet’s magnetic field toward the polar regions.
