A powerful geomagnetic storm created a series of brilliant auroras recently for observers across North America.

As eyewitnesses captured spectacular footage of an aurora borealis lighting up the sky in multiple locations, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's service coordinator Shawn Dahl and solar physicist Lucie Green explain what a solar storm is and how it can affect life on Earth.

After displays of auroras lit up the sky on Tuesday, another Northern Light array is expected to bring a gleaming light show to the northern part of the U.S. Wednesday.

The sun unleashed the strongest X5.1 class solar flare, blasting the Earth with 2025 year’s strongest solar activity so far and causing warnings of potential disruptions and blackouts.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Will Florida get more auroras this weekend? In short, maybe. The sun remains quite active, and its solar material has reached the earth, interacting with our magnetic field that can cause auroras, as the upper-level nitrogen and oxygen molecules are excited by the energized particles from our nearest star.

A geomagnetic storm surprised forecasters overnight as material from recent solar eruptions arrived earlier than expected, briefly reaching strong (G3) levels. Now, NOAA has a G3 geomagnetic storm watch in effect as Earth braces for further impacts from multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched in quick succession from sunspot region AR4274.

The view line on SWPC's dashboard map shows people in up to nine states could see the northern lights, or aurora borealis, Thursday night. Michiganders as far south as West Branch, Cadillac and Manistee may be able to see the glowing lights in the night sky to the north, NOAA says.