Northern Lights 12 May 2024. Northern lights or aurora borealis illuminate the night sky north of san francisco in middletown, california on may 11, 2024. Northern lights forecast for may 2024.

Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis. The blinking lights of a plane streak through the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, which is visible on may 11, 2024.