As we kickstarted the New Year with glittering fireworks, nature and Earth joined in the celebrations as well with a magnificent display of lights of its own, the northern lights.
Two coronal mass ejections (CME) hit the Earth’s magnetic field, initiating geomagnetic storm conditions and painting the night sky with vibrant aurora borealis displays as far as California in the US, Austria and Germany, according to Space.com.
The geomagnetic storms graced the sky throughout the New Year’s Eve night, giving us a natural display of fireworks into the new year.
The CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on December 31 at 16:21 GMT and a second CME struck later that night.
