Solar Maximum Boosts Auroras

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Aurora activity is just getting started. Here's why the best northern lights are yet to come.

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The sun has reached solar maximum, a period of heightened solar activity and sunspot frequency that occurs during the sun's approximately 11-year solar cycle.

The best time to see the northern lights and the southern lights will be during the 2026-2027 aurora season.

The peak in aurora activity actually occurs a few years after solar maximum.

The space weather environment after the solar maximum period and before solar minimum gets a little bit "complicated" Scott McIntosh is a solar and astrophysical researcher and vice president of operations at Lynker Space .

McIntosh 's research has discovered that the sun's 22-year magnetic cycle known as the Hale Cycle is crucial to understanding why we have this overlap between the "light" and "dark" solar activity.

The overlapping of the Sun 's magnetic hale cycles is the primary cause of the increase in Kp post maximum.

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