Northern Lights July 2024 Olympics. 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. A celestial event called solar cycle 25 —the cycle the sun goes through around every 11 years—has been the cause of geomagnetic storms that have resulted.

Thanks to an active sun, parts of the u.s. With a score of 14.666, biles put the us women over the top to take the.