Maybe today?
Why UK might miss out on view of Sun's 'solar tsunami' (... but there's still a chance)
But even without the predictable cloud cover over Great Britain, the prediction from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska was only a 4 (on a scale of 0 to 9) meaning activity for last night was not visible.
But there are still a few days to go.
Usually only regions closer to the Arctic can see the aurora of rippling reds and greens, but solar storms pull them south.
Early on Sunday morning, the Sun's surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma - ionised atoms - into interplanetary space.
'This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th,' said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). 'It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time.'
We went out for an AURORA-hunt; no aurora, but LOTS of ORBS:
Posted: 10:14:23 AM
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