May 2024 solar storms

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The solar storms of May 2024 were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10 to 13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25. Different names have been used for the event in different regions, including 2024 Mother's Day Storm , the Gannon storm (after space physicist Jennifer Gannon), Han Anniversary Storm, and Victory Day Storm. Only a small fraction of the strongest geomagnetic storms of recent decades have acquired names commonly used by the scientific community, and the multiple names assigned to the May 2024 event have prompted calls for a standardized international system for naming space weather events. The geomagnetic storm was the most powerful to affect Earth since March 1989, and produced aurorae at far lower latitudes than usual.

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