Photos: Northern Lights illuminate night skies in New England, and across Northern Hemisphere
By Globe wire servicesUpdated May 11, 2024, 6:43 a.m.
Northern Lights hover over the city of Boston in a 25-second exposure photo as a jet flies over Dorchester Bay towards Logan Airport late on May 10.Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff
An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated. The effects of the Northern Lights, which were prominently on display in the U.K., were due to last through the weekend and possibly into next week.
The storm could produce northern lights as far south in the U.S. as Alabama and Northern California, NOAA said. But it was hard to predict and experts stressed it would not be the dramatic curtains of color normally associated with the northern lights, but more like splashes of greenish hues. — The Associated Press
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The Northern Lights were seen in a thirty second exposure from Conomo Point in Essex an hour before sunrise.
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Observers watched the Northern Lights from the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire late on May 10, 2024.Charlie Peachey/Mount Washington
Northern lights appeared in the night sky above the Brocken early Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Schierke, northern Germany. Matthias Bein/Associated Press
The Northern Lights appeared in the sky above the footbridge across Lobster Cove in the Annisquam neighborhood of Gloucester early on May 11.John Blanding/Globe staff
The Northern Lights flared in the sky over a farmhouse in Brunswick, Maine.Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press
The Northern Lights appeared above the Mount Washington Observatory late on May 10, 2024.Charlie Peachey/Mount Washington
The Northern Lights appeared above the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire late on May 10, 2024.Charlie Peachey/Mount Washington
The scene in Portsmouth, N.H.Caleb Jones/Associated Press
The northern lights illuminated the night sky along a highway in Middletown, California on May 11, 2024. JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images
The sky in Concord, Mass.Gates Dupont/Globe Correspondent
The aurora early on Saturday morning, as seen from Millennium Park in Boston.Raul Mostoslavsky
Old tombstones were seen against the Northern Lights at a cemetery near Skidmore, Mo. Charlie Riedel/Associated Press
A person stopped for a photo of the Northern Lights in Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, May. 11, 2024. ETHAN CAIRNS/Associated Press
The aurora borealis illuminated the night sky near London, Ont.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images
In this long exposure photograph, a car drove past and illuminated poplars as the Northern Lights glowed in the night sky above the village of Daillens, Switzerland, early on May 11.Laurent Gillieron/Associated Press
Visitors at St. Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, England, saw the aurora borealis. Ian Forsyth/Getty
The Northern Lights over East Brandenburg, Germany.Patrick Pleul/Associated Press
Vienna, Austria.MAX SLOVENCIK/APA/AFP via Getty Images
