It sparked displays of the northern lights that were seen as far south as Edinburgh in Scotland and Arkansas in the US. At 00:12 BST, Lancaster University’s Aurorawatch issued an amber alert, meaning that aurora is likely across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland. This makes it possible – though not guaranteed –that another spectacular display of aurora could be seen tonight. This particular solar storm began on Wednesday when the largest solar flare for more than a decade exploded on the Sun. This was the case in 1859 when the Carrington event, the largest solar storm on records, struck our planet.

Source: The Guardian September 08, 2017 14:03 UTC