The sun is at the peak of its 11-year cycle. That means an uptick in solar flares will lead to more chances to see the northern lights over the next couple of years.
However, we cannot see them all, McIntosh added. For starters, we can only properly see solar flares on the side of the sun facing Earth, although some farside explosions are so massive that we ...
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