May’s Aurora One for the History Books?

May 26th, 2024 — There are some things in this world that are so remarkable that we cannot help but to gravitate towards them. It is almost ineffable to describe why this phenomenon takes place. We ostensibly seem to be draw to them simply because they are there. Motivation can be a killer. It is dangerous to climb Mt. Everest, but even that appears to call us to climb to the top of its peaks. Even though we may implode, we want to take the little submarine to the ocean floor and see the infamous Titanic, just to say we did it. These things make the top of all of our bucket lists. It is all the more better the more it tests the human spirit. Like a magnet we are pulled to the great Pyramids even though we may be half a world away from them. Stonehenge beckons to us like a lighthouse in a storm. We can still hear the gladiator’s battle cries in the great Colosseum. Willingly, we give our entire savings just for a chance to see them. Either because of the challenge, or rather, because to us they are majestic. Breathtaking. Beyond words. We imagine them in dreams awake. They remind us that this is our home in the cosmos, whether they have been built by man or built by nature. The aurora borealis and aurora australis, or the northern and southern lights are just but one instance of this.

What can we say about these astronomical occurrences that give them the justice that they…