Throughout 2024, the sky was sometimes lit up with an orange-red hue offered by magnificent northern lights. For the first hours of 2025, all you had to do was look up to witness such a spectacle in several departments such as Isère, the Vosges, the Alpes-Maritimes and even Île-de-France. Fantastic images that can be found in abundance on social networks.
The sun is currently experiencing intense activity. According to scientists, our star, composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, entered the eleventh year of a cycle last year where, for a reason that is still difficult to elucidate, its activity becomes increasingly strong. Spots appear on its surface and produce ejections of solar plasma. When these clouds move toward Earth, they cause the Northern Lights.
According to NASA, “the Sun emitted three powerful solar flares on December 29. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Solar Ultraviolet Imagery captured images of these events, which were classified as X1.1, X1.5, and X1.1. »
On social networks, magnificent images were taken in different places on the planet, in Iceland, in Russia, in the United States.
