Tag: Aurora Borealis
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NASA, NOAA leaders stress need to study sun, improve space weather forecasts
While the nation celebrates the safe return of the astronauts who flew by the moon, there’s another celestial body scientists yearn to know more about for future missions: the sun. “As we travel farther and farther in space, as we get to the moon, as we go to Mars, our ability to understand how the…
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Northern lights visible across Colorado from severe geomagnetic storm, possible viewing again Wednesday night
The Northern lights, aka aurora borealis, were visible across Denver and Colorado on Tuesday night due to a severe geomagnetic storm that lit up the skies. The Space Weather Prediction Center on Wednesday issued a Level 4 (severe) geomagnetic storm watch. Forecasters say the aurora may be visible “over much of the northern half of the…