Much was said about the comet that some prefer to call simply A3, of which only lifeless, dim fragments were expected to remain by the time it passed near Earth.
On October 8, 2024, a powerful solar flare erupted. It was strong enough to produce an aurora visible from lower latitudes, including Raleigh, North Carolina.
A brief story of my experience witnessing the last couple of solar eclipses over the United States: the annular solar eclipse of October 14, 2023, and the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.