For all Wyomingites that are interested in stargazing, tonight (Monday, September 18th, 2023), there is fairly decent chance you will be able to see an aurora.
The Northern Lights aren't visible over Wyoming very often. This moment was that exception. A photographer captured an absolutely mesmerizing video of this phenomenon and virtually no one has seen it...until now.
The aurora borealis danced over Casper this past weekend. Thankfully someone had their eyes (and camera) pointed to the skies to capture this stellar event.
On the heels of the eclipse of 2017, Wyoming has another reason to look up. The Northern Lights may be visible further south than usual for a couple of nights.
Be sure to watch for the northern lights if you are out and about during the late night and early morning hours this week as NOAA has issued a magnetic storm watch.
According to spaceweather.com, a series of CMEs, or coronal mass ejections, hit Earth's magnetic field on June 22nd, producing a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm. Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into more than a dozen US states, including places as far south as Colorado, Georgia, Virginia and Arkansas...
This breathtaking new video from the International Space Station offers a rarely seen view of the Auroras from space.
The Southern and Northern Lights are one of the most beautiful natural phenomenon in the world. So you can imagine how amazing they look while floating above the Earth. You gotta see this footage after the jump.