Northern Lights 2024 May. On the night of may 10, 2024, people across canada and the united states looked up to witness one of the best displays of the aurora borealis in more than 20 years. Nasa says may saw one of the strongest aurora events in 500 years, with the sun’s solar maximum making northern lights reach farther south.
The northern lights, formally known as aurora borealis, are caused when a surge of solar particles and energy interacts with the earth’s magnetosphere, exciting nitrogen and. On friday, may 10, 2024, space weather forecasters began predicting a “severe” solar storm.