The sky is on fire of light; The best aurora borealis images last night

According to ISNA; A fast coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth on January 19, triggering hours of intense auroral activity and lighting up the sky beyond the poles.

Mass ejection from the solar corona is a massive eruption of the solar wind and an increase in magnetic fields that comes out of the solar corona and spreads in space. Mass ejections from the solar corona are usually associated with other solar phenomena such as solar flares. This phenomenon arises from the active regions of the sun, such as group sunspots, and at most, three times a day, mass eruptions from the sun’s crown are released into space in the form of solar wind, which have a supersonic speed of 250 to 700 km/s. This amounts to at least one departure every five days.

Fans were expecting a great show last night and it turned out really well.

Sky watchers around the world were treated to stunning aurora borealis far beyond their usual polar range, lighting up the mid-latitude sky during a severe G4 class geomagnetic storm.

The northern lights were reported in the mid-latitudes and were observed during a night with rapidly fluctuating geomagnetic conditions that fluctuated between storm levels G1, G2, G3, and G4, from Germany to the southwestern United States, including New Mexico.

The show began with the arrival of an extremely fast solar coronal eruption that hit the Earth’s magnetic field at around 2:38 p.m. ET on January 19. The show began when geomagnetic conditions first reached G4 (severe) hurricane levels, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

The CME had moved away from the Sun just one day earlier on January 18th during a powerful solar flare, giving it very little time to travel the approximately 147 million kilometers between the Sun and Earth.

After the shock’s initial arrival, the passing CME kept the Earth’s magnetic field in a highly perturbed state for hours, creating repeated waves of auroral activity as the storm’s surface waxed and waned overnight.

We’ve rounded up some of the best photos of last night’s aurora activity taken by sky watchers around the world from Mexico, the United States, Germany, Hungary, France, China, Canada, and the Netherlands, respectively.