On Mother's Day weekend in May 2024, Earth experienced its most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades, spawning auroras—the ribbony bands of light in the nighttime skies in the Northern and Southern hemispheres—that may have been among the strongest displays on record in the past 500 years.

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-physicists-solar-outbursts-historic-mother.html)

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