There was another exceptional Auroral display over the upper Midwest during the early morning on 8 October 2024. Day Night Band imagery, above, from Suomi NPP (at 0800 UTC) and from — despite the label — NOAA-20 (at 0823 UTC), shows the big change in areal coverage of the northern... Read More

There are a number of instruments on the GOES-R series to monitor space weather, one of them is the Solar UV Imager (SUVI).6-panel SUVI ImageryThe same loop as above, but as an animated gif. The SUVI monitors the Sun at 6 frequencies in the UV part of the electromagnetic spectrum. UW/SSEC has started to post daily... Read More

Thousands if not millions of people took colorful photos of the Northern Lights during the early hours of May 11th during a remarkable G5 geomagnetic storm that expanded Aurora Borealis activity southward to unusually low latitudes in the United States. The JPSS fleet of polar-orbiting spacecraft captured eight monochromatic VIIRS... Read More

The Space Weather Prediction Center (link) has recently noted strong solar activity as part of the ongoing solar maximum (see the images below from 10 May and 11 May). The result on 11 May was an aurora borealis observed south into the United States. The Day Night Band image above,... Read More