Last night (February 16), a stream of solar plasma came to Earth, filling the atmosphere with particles from the solar wind, causing a rare red aurora over much of Canada, the northern US and Europe. And space weather forecasters promise more to come. In recent days, Twitter has been almost flooded with pictures of sky-watchers and accounts of gorgeous landscapes. aurora borealis. The latest dancing aurora wave was particularly spectacular because it came in rare shades of red that required a higher particle concentration. solar windto penetrate deeper earth atmosphere.

Aurora hunter Mike McLellan from Quebec, Canada, managed to snap some unusual photos of the horizon glowing with a bright neon green light that turns orange, red and purple in the sky, and shared them with Space.com.

“No words for last night’s show in Kåfjorddalen, Norway” — He shared the aurora hunter Adrienne Mauduit, who tweeted from the @NightLights_AM Twitter account.(opens in new tab) contains a series of images that capture a firework-like burst of purple and green over a snowy landscape.

One of Modui’s images shows a bright orange, pink, and purple glow in the shape of a butterfly on top of a rocky mountain.

“Did someone say red?” 😱 Absolutely terrifying aurora over Skibotn, Norway a few moments ago,” wrote Mauduit in a tweet.

Dan Tanner from Alberta, Canada shared a photo of a winter sunrise filled with a green and purple glow that lights up the dawn sky.

“Wow!! Tanner, a stunning sight this morning in Central Alberta!” he wrote. from Twitter.

Aurora overload is expected to continue and possibly become more intense. Coronal mass removal (CME) – A blast of plasma from the Sun’s upper atmosphere on February 15 reached Earth today, exploding from the sun. You can expect to see aurora lights as far north as the UK and USA. Geomagnetic storms are expected to last until at least February 19, so head north on the weekend if possible and make the most of it.