This Valentine's Day, stargazers in some parts of the United States will have the opportunity to experience the surreal views ...

The Valentine's Day northern lights will largely be visible in Canada and Alaska, but a few northern-most states may see the ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers are eagerly awaiting a rare cosmic event. A distant star, T Coronae Borealis, is expected to erupt soon. This explosion will make it briefly visible in the night sky. For a few days ...

Aurora is a shifting pattern of light emitted from atoms and molecules in the atmosphere after they have been ionized by collisions with charged particles from the sun. The radiation can be seen ...

Although less likely, viewers in South Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine may also see the aurora. The sun sends more than heat and light to Earth — it sends energy ...

"If you are in the right place, these aurora can be quite pleasing to look at," NOAA says. In the U.S., the auroras may become visible in more than a dozen northern states, according to the Space ...

This creates the stunning displays known as the northern lights, or Aurora Borealis, in the Northern Hemisphere, and the southern lights, or Aurora Australis, in the Southern Hemisphere.

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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, have been a near-weekly occurrence ... and you have a general idea of what's happening to our nearest star right now. The transition causes the sun to ...