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Northern Lights News 24 June 2025 - 7 August 2025

Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

The Perseids, active in early August and building toward their mid-August peak, can reach about 100 meteors per hour at maximum under dark skies, with bright blue fireballs from debris of Comet Swift–Tuttle. The 2025 Perseids peak will be hampered by moonlight: the Sturgeon Moon will be full on Aug 9, and the Moon will be 84–90% illuminated around Aug 11–13, washing out dim meteors and reducing the typical 50–75 meteors per hour to mostly bright fireballs. Eta Eridanids peak on the night of Aug 7–8, contributing about 3 meteors per hour at best. On Aug 7–8, Venus (mag −4.0)
7 August 2025
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Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic‑storm watch for the night of 25 June 2025. A negative-polarity coronal hole crossing the Sun’s central meridian is releasing plasma at roughly 500–800 km/s toward Earth. The fast solar wind could drive auroras as far south as Colorado, New York and Oregon and briefly disturb power grids, satellites and GPS. Peer‑reviewed modeling in Nature Scientific Reports shows high-speed streams routinely trigger medium geomagnetic storms that can inject more energy into near‑Earth space than rarer CMEs over a solar cycle. A compressed co-rotating interaction region at the leading edge combined with
25 June 2025
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Sky‑Spectacle Alert: Rare Northern Lights Could Paint U.S. Skies Tonight—Here’s the Science, the Map and the Expert Warnings You Need

Sky‑Spectacle Alert: Rare Northern Lights Could Paint U.S. Skies Tonight—Here’s the Science, the Map and the Expert Warnings You Need

A coronal-hole high-speed stream traveling at about 750 km/s is slamming Earth’s magnetosphere and has prompted NOAA to issue a G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic-storm watch for 24–25 June 2025. The storm could push aurora visibility as far south as Illinois, Ohio, and New York on the night of 24–25 June 2025. The disturbance already produced vivid green and magenta curtains seen from Texas to Alberta earlier this month. NOAA SWPC reported K-index values of 4 late Monday, indicating active conditions likely to produce auroras in the northern tier of the United States. Updated view-line maps show the aurora oval dipping into
24 June 2025
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Sky‑Spectacle Tonight: 15 U.S. States Could Witness a Rare Aurora Outburst—Everything You Must Know Before Sunset

Sky‑Spectacle Tonight: 15 U.S. States Could Witness a Rare Aurora Outburst—Everything You Must Know Before Sunset

A large negative-polarity coronal-hole high-speed stream (CH HSS) has been rotating into Earth’s line of sight since 23 June, prompting NOAA SWPC to issue a G2 geomagnetic-storm outlook for 25–26 June UTC. Solar wind gusts exceeding 600 km/s are expected, with the planetary K-index (Kp) peaking near 5–6. Solar Cycle 25 is nearing its predicted maximum in mid-2025, following multiple strong flares including an X-class event captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on 17 June. Forbes identifies a 15-state ‘Aurora Alert’ zone spanning Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Idaho, South
24 June 2025
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