Look North Tonight for a Possible Light Show in the Sky

"Stargazers looking to the sky late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning could see northern lights, or aurorae. According to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the potential light show started Sunday, when the sun's surface erupted and hurled tons of ionized atoms -- or plasma -- into space." Read more here.

This is not unusual for those living near the poles, but to see it from the East Coast would be a treat.

"When the Sun’s ejected coronal material reaches Earth’s magnetic field it interacts with it, and might create a geomagnetic storm. The solar particles collide with the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere, causing them to emit light – this effect is called Northern Lights or Aurora (Borealis at the North Pole, Australis at the South Pole). These lights can usually be seen only close to the Earth’s magnetic poles, but in case of a geomagnetic storm, they can also be seen further from them." Read more here.