Solar Storm 2024 May. The image shows a blend of 171 angstrom, 131 angstrom and 304 angstrom light, subsets of extreme ultraviolet light. A sunspot region rotated into view from off the sun's southeast limb on may 1st, 2024 and was assigned the number 3664 (ar 3664).
The storm created beautiful auroras, causing skies to sparkle and dance at much lower latitudes than usual. — the national oceanic and atmospheric administration’s space weather prediction center (swpc) — a division of the national weather service — was monitoring the sun following a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (cmes) that began wednesday, may 8, 2024.