Northern Lights 2024 San Francisco. Along with thousands of laypeople, astronomers around the bay area were amazed and awestruck by the rare sight of the aurora borealis so far south of the arctic. The aurora may be visible sunday night after.
A dazzling display of atmospheric pageantry, ignited by ions of cosmic wind… and one that was recently observed as far south as our own u.s. The skies across the northern hemisphere were filled with stunning displays of color late friday and into saturday as an unusually strong solar storm hit earth.