# Northern lights: when and how to see them

The Sun is near the peak of its cycle, so auroras now reach far further south than usual. NOAA’s aurora dashboard and SpaceWeatherLive show the forecast live, and the twilight time where you are tells you when to start looking. Add Wikipedia on auroras and geomagnetic storms and NASA’s astronomy picture of the day.

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1. [Aurora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora) – Wikipedia
   An aurora is a natural light display in Earth's upper atmosphere caused by charged particles from the Sun colliding with atoms in the atmosphere. These collisions excite oxygen and nitrogen, which then emit light of different colours such as green, red, and purple. When observed in high-latitude re…
2. [Aurora Dashboard (Experimental) | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental) – swpc.noaa.gov
3. [SpaceWeatherLive.com | Real-time data and plots auroral activity | SpaceWeatherLive.com](https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/) – SpaceWeatherLive.com
   Real-Time solar activity and auroral activity data website
4. [Geomagnetic storm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm) – Wikipedia
   A geomagnetic storm, also known as a magnetic storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere that is driven by interactions between the magnetosphere and large-scale transient plasma and magnetic field structures that originate on or near the Sun.
5. [Sunrise and sunset today – times, day length, twilight](https://slonce.info.pl/en) – slonce.info.pl
   What time does the sun rise and set today? Sunrise and sunset times, day length, solar noon and civil, nautical and astronomical twilight.
6. [Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) – Kosmos.info.pl](https://kosmos.info.pl/en/apod) – Kosmos.info.pl
   Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) with an explanation by a professional astronomer, updated daily.

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