We had been anticipating a show this weekend and boy did the sky ship!
Stunning northern lights lit up skies throughout the U.S. as a collection of highly effective geomagnetic storms sparked auroras far past their normal polar limits. From North America to northern Europe, skywatchers had been handled to a stunning show.
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Photographer Hasan Akbas captured this stunning aurora show from Fairbanks, Alaska, on March 20. An aurora corona or “crown” seems when the northern lights seem immediately overhead.
Akbas also captured a curtain of color as the northern lights danced over snow-capped mountains in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Aurora chaser Hunter Fowkes had a great show from Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 20 at around 1:30 a.m.
“Before the Aurora tried to rival the brightness of the sun at 1:30 am last night, stout pillars during the opening phase of a substorm,” Fowkes wrote in a post on X.
Before the Aurora tried to rival the brightness of the solar at 1:30 am final night time, stout pillars in the course of the opening part of a substorm north of Cheyenne, Wyoming final night time. This was nonetheless extraordinarily brilliant. pic.twitter.com/WaGu2W613fMarch 21, 2026
Meanwhile, deep at mid-latitudes (36° N), aurora chaser Derick Wilson captured a crimson aurora glow from northwest New Mexico!
Hyperlapse of the quick burst of visible aurora about 130am 3/21.@TamithaSkov pic.twitter.com/HsOct9Mpg2March 21, 2026
X person Jakes in Iceland witnessed a very exceptional show as the northern lights danced overhead from Reykjavik, Iceland.
Wow the northern lights simply exploded over downtown Reykjavik, Iceland22 March 2026 @ 23:20 pic.twitter.com/F1gxvoM1VcMarch 23, 2026
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada shared this dramatic timelapse of the weekend auroras.
Saturday-Sunday #aurora was a banger! #timelapse. #astronomy @ratzlaff @TamithaSkov pic.twitter.com/vRipuq3JeEMarch 22, 2026
Photographer Paul Clark shared a stupendous timelapse of the northern lights dancing over Buttertubs Pass, the Yorkshire Dales, England.
Time lapse of the spectacular aurora final night time from Buttertubs Pass #swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales pic.twitter.com/Uho34hsnRRMarch 21, 2026
Meanwhile, photographer Alistair Hamill was handled to a very dreamy scene as he captured faint pink auroras breaking by way of a hazy sky above the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland.
When I first arrived on the Causeway on Friday night, the sooner CME hadn’t actually performed a lot to the Earth’s magnetic area, however I used to be nearly to choose up faint aurora camera-only by way of the humid haze of the sky. 20/0/26, 20:50 UTC, Giant’s Causeway pic.twitter.com/dLV7W6QRSZMarch 22, 2026
The show wasn’t restricted to of us within the Northern Hemisphere; down below, skywatchers obtained a stunning show of aurora australis or southern lights.
X person AustraliaSkynWeather shared this view of the southern lights from Trentham, Victoria, Australia, utilizing an iPhone 17Pro.
Twenty minutes of fantastic Aurora. iPhone 17Pro 9.25-9.45pm AEDT Trentham, Victoria pic.twitter.com/Nl0jc5ogf3March 22, 2026
While the weekend’s geomagnetic exercise is starting to wind down, the show will not be utterly over but. Minor to reasonable (G1 to G2) storm situations might linger into March 23, in response to the U.K. Met Office, with elevated photo voltaic wind persevering with to buffet Earth’s magnetic area.
