Cosmic Sky Show: Northern Lights, Shooting Stars & Space Spectacles Dazzle Sept. 26–27, 2025
Key Facts Space Weather Outlook: Auroras & Solar Storms After a geomagnetically active equinox week, Earth’s magnetosphere is settling down for now. A few days ago, skywatchers as far south as Alberta were treated to vibrant auroral shapes (one even looked like a green “shark’s fin” cutting through the stars) thanks to a high-speed solar wind stream spaceweather.com. As of Friday, Sept. 26, that solar wind has slackened, and NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts quiet geomagnetic conditions in the near term earthsky.org. Any auroras tonight will likely be confined to the high Arctic latitudes – think northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland,
