Northern lights illuminate the sky across 22 states tonight — here’s who gets to see the show .QN

Can you paint with all the colors of the solar wind?

Stargazers in New York and elsewhere could be treated to a celestial light show of epic proportions tonight due to a powerful geomagnetic storm.

Aurora. — “A whole train of big #solarstorms are on their way, along with some smaller storms hitting now, and some fast solar wind!” gushed space weather physicist Tamitha Skov on X. “It is an #aurora photographers dream starting now and lasting at least through the weekend.”Kirk Fisher – stock.adobe.com

On November 5, an M7.4 solar flare burst forth from the sun, releasing a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) — an expulsion of plasma and magnetic fields from our solar star’s outermost layer — that was traveling between 2.5–3.1 million mph, Space.com reported, activating the cosmic phenomena of northern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora australis).

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It is projected to arrive later on November 6 or early November 7, Space.com noted on Thursday, potentially triggering strong G3 geomagnetic storm conditions, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

The NOAA map. — Map of the 22 states that’ll be able to see the view.NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

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