A Global Phenomenon Tracker
Auroras, eclipses, migrations, superblooms, and hundreds more, tracked in real time across every continent. This is your guide to witnessing the extraordinary, wherever on Earth it happens.
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Live, at peak, or in season across the planet today. Open any one in the app for the live read and exact timing.
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Charged particles from the sun collide with Earth's atmosphere, painting the sky in curtains of green, purple, and crimson light. The aurora is unpredictable by nature. When conditions align, entire horizons ignite in minutes. Our app tracks real-time Kp index, solar wind, and cloud cover to score your chances of seeing the lights tonight.
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Trillions of dinoflagellates turn the ocean into liquid light. Every paddle stroke, every wave, every fish trail leaves a glowing wake of electric blue. Only a handful of bays on Earth sustain the concentration needed for this phenomenon, and they only glow on the darkest nights.
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For roughly two weeks each spring, Japan transforms. Thousands of cherry trees erupt in pale pink, and the entire country pauses to witness it. Hanami, the ancient tradition of flower viewing, turns parks into celebrations. But the bloom is fragile. One storm can end it overnight.
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Every autumn, a billion monarchs leave Canada and fly 3,000 miles south to the mountains of central Mexico. No single butterfly makes the round trip. It takes four generations. When they arrive, the trees sag under the weight of millions of clustered wings, vibrating in unison. It's one of the greatest journeys in the animal kingdom.
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At the mouth of Venezuela's Catatumbo River, lightning strikes up to 280 times per hour, nearly every night, for 10 hours straight. Nowhere else on Earth produces this density of electrical storms. The convergence of warm Caribbean air, cold Andean winds, and methane from the swamps creates a permanent thunderstorm engine.
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Every August, Earth plows through the debris trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, and the sky fills with shooting stars. At peak, you can see 100+ meteors per hour, bright fast streaks that sometimes leave glowing trails for seconds. All you need is a dark sky, a clear night, and patience.
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One of the most active volcanoes on Earth, Kīlauea has been continuously erupting in some form for decades. When conditions allow, rivers of molten rock flow downhill toward the ocean, creating new land in real time. Where lava meets sea, massive steam plumes rise and the coast literally grows before your eyes.
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Fifty million red crabs emerge from the forest simultaneously and march to the sea to spawn. Roads close. Bridges are built for them. The island turns red. Triggered by the first rains of the wet season and synchronized with the lunar cycle, it's one of the most visually overwhelming wildlife events on Earth.
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A circumhorizontal arc, the "fire rainbow," appears when sunlight passes through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds at exactly the right angle. The result is a horizontal band of pure spectral color stretched across the sky. It can only form when the sun is above 58°, making it impossible to see at high latitudes.
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When Earth passes directly between the sun and moon, our atmosphere bends and filters sunlight, casting the moon in deep blood red. Ancient civilizations feared it. Modern observers travel for it. A total lunar eclipse unfolds slowly over hours: the moon dimming, reddening, and emerging again into brilliant white.
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Earth Exhibit tracks 1,000+ rare phenomena worldwide and tells you whether to go, and exactly where to stand. It reads the real drivers behind each one (weather, moon, tides, space weather, water and vegetation, recent sightings) and turns them into a single live score, so you never travel for a dud or miss the night it all comes together.
Every phenomenon scored in real time from its own physical drivers, not a generic forecast. Know tonight's odds before you leave.
A push when something peaks, goes live, or is confirmed near you, anywhere you live or plan to travel.
The specific viewing spots, the best window tonight, how to see it, what to bring, and how to get there safely.
Browse all 1,000+ phenomena on an interactive world map, with live cams from the best sites.
Pick a place and dates and see every phenomenon you could witness while you're there.
Log what you've witnessed with photos and build a lifetime collection.
Coming soon to iOS and Android. Get notified at launch.
Our Mission
"The wonders in this app are rare and fleeting, brief moments when the world reveals its magic. But just as powerful are the journeys between them: your daily life, the wild places near you, and the people you share them with."
We built Earth Exhibit to help you not only chase extraordinary phenomena, but to explore more deeply, notice more often, and fall in love with the world around you.