Biggest Solar Flare in Years—Auroras to Be Widespread Tonight?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 17:20 in Astronomy & Space

Magnetic instability has sparked a flare and aimed a "firehose" of charged gas at us—which could mean auroras far south tonight, NASA says.

Read the whole article on National Geographic

More from National Geographic

Learn more about

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net