The Northern Lights placed on one other spectacular present on Thursday night time, with shades of blue, pink and inexperienced rippling throughout the night time sky.
The U.S. Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted the aurora borealis could be seen throughout a lot of the nation but it surely was unclear how a lot of it may very well be seen from southern Ontario.
In line with their newest forecasting fashions, there’s an opportunity we might see the Northern Lights for a second time this weekend.
That’s due to latest coronal mass ejections (CME), or eruption of photo voltaic materials, in the direction of Earth. When these electrons attain our planet they collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in our higher environment, releasing that power within the type of gentle.
The Northern Lights as seen from Guelph, Ont. on Oct. 10, 2024. (Courtesy: Jeff Turner)
In Might, southern Ontario was additionally handled a blinding show of the aurora borealis.
However it’s not usually that we see it a couple of night time in a row.
“That is fairly uncommon and solely within the years the place photo voltaic exercise is the very best does it occur for a couple of nights,” Ethen Solar, an astronomer on the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics on the College of Toronto, advised CTVNews.ca in an electronic mail.
The additional north you reside, the higher the celestial present.
For one of the best view, consultants suggest travelling outdoors town to keep away from gentle air pollution.
Click on the viewer under for extra CTV viewer pictures of the aurora borealis or take a look at this photograph gallery.
– With further reporting from CTV Toronto and NOAA
