Yellowknife was first settled in 1935, after gold had been found in the area; Yellowknife soon became the center of economic activity in the NWT, and became the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967. As gold production began to wane, Yellowknife shifted from being a mining town to being a center of government services in the 1980s. However, with the recent discovery of diamonds north of Yellowknife, this shift has begun to reverse.
Added Oct 25, 2011: aurora borealis in Michigan. Scroll down.

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Northern Lights in Michigan

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A giant mass of plasma spat from the sun on Saturday morning [Oct 22, 2011] hit the Earth Monday
afternoon, causing an unusually colored light show that dazzled skywatchers.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



Mother Nature's majesty was on display following a coronal mass ejection (CME) that hit the planet at
approximately 2:00p.m. EDT on October 24, reported Spaceweather.com, a website dedicated to
tracking solar wind, solar storms and other interstellar events.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



The impact strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, the site reported, exposing geosynchronous
satellites to solar wind plasma -- and sparking a dazzlingly intense geomagnetic storm.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



"Wow, wow, wow! These were the best Northern Lights I've seen since 2004," said Shawn Malone. The
photographer told FoxNews.com that the auroras he spied in Northern Michigan were the best in years.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



Spaceweather.com reported aurora sightings stretching across the United States, from
New Mexico and California to Kansas, Iowa, Maryland and New York.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



The event reached the G1 level on NASA's space weather scale for geomagnetic storms, the lowest
level on a five point scale. When such storms reach G5 levels, NASA warns to watch for
problems with the electricity grid and problems with spacecraft and satellites.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



Weak power grid fluctuations may have occurred overnight as a result of the G1 storm Monday evening.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com



Many skywatchers in the deep south reported seeing unusual red color in the sky, a rare and not fully
understood event that sometimes appears during intense geomagnetic storms, Spaceweather said.
-- Source: Shawn Malone / LakeSuperiorPhoto.com

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