WASHINGTON: Auroras could light up skies across swaths of the planet for the second night in a row on Saturday, after already dazzling people from the United States to Tasmania
People pose for photos as a geomagnetic storm lights up the night sky above the Bonneville Salt Flats on May 10, 2024 in Wendover, Utah.
It was later upgraded to an"extreme" geomagnetic storm, the first since the"Halloween Storms" of October 2003 that caused blackouts in Sweden and damaged power infrastructure in South Africa. But no major disruptions to power or communications networks appear to have been reported this time around, despite initial worries from authorities.
However China's National Center for Space Weather issued a"red alert" on Saturday morning, warning the storm will impact communications and navigation in most areas of the country, state news agency Xinhua reported.This image courtesy of Ryan Prewitt shows the Northern lights or aurora borealis over Ohio, during a geomagnetic storm on May 10, 2024.
NASA has a dedicated team looking into astronaut safety and can ask astronauts on the International Space Station to move to places within the outpost that are better shielded.
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