Northern Lights May Be Visible From Your Backyard Tonight

If you live in the northernmost United

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States, you might be able to see something rare in the night sky tonight: the Northern Lights. Thanks to a particularly strong solar flare due to hit the Earth tonight, the Northern Lights will be visible much further from the poles than they normally are.

On Monday, the sun released a large coronal mass ejection (CME), which for the past two days has been making its way to Earth. While very large CMEs could damage electronics or knock satellites out of orbit, this one is just strong enough to put on a strong light show.