Clearly visible with the naked eye," Iain Mansfield in Hertford, England, told AFP. That sense of wonder was shared in Australia's island state of Tasmania. "Absolutely biblical skies in Tasmania at 4am this morning. I...
A burst of hot plasma spit out by the sun is about to slam into the Earth, sparking possible auroras that could be visible in the U.S. from the Midwest to the Northeast. The plasma -- called a coronal mass ejection (CME) -- was shot out from the sun during an M5-class flare on...