Get ready for a rare celestial light show: A minor geomagnetic storm is forecast to make the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) visible much farther south than usual on the night of August 19, 2025. Skywatchers from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to the Upper Midwest and New England – potentially even parts of Iowa and…
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Perseid Meteor Shower Sparkles on (Despite the Moon) One of the year’s most beloved sky shows – the Perseid meteor shower – is still active this weekend, even though its peak on August 12–13 has passed space.com theguardian.com. The Perseids originate from debris of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, “an ancient celestial body… well over 5 billion years old,”…
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Get ready for a cosmic show on the nights of August 6–7, 2025. The sky will offer a bit of everything – from a ramping-up meteor shower to a dazzling pair of planets at dawn, all under the glow of an almost-full Sturgeon Moon. There’s even talk of potential auroras at high latitudes, plus the…
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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…
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