Not quite as good as last night, but you could see faint aurora tonight from north of Baltimore, MD. 🔭🧪

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org

We are experiencing a big solar storm tonight, so this is quite unusual!

Look towards the northern horizon. You might be able to see a faint, green glow. Your phone will see it better than your eyes. Although the clouds have rolled in, so you might have to wait for a break in the clouds.

Time-lapse video of tonight's auroras from Maryland, about 4 minutes of real time.

I didn't think to bring a tripod, so this was the best I could do, propping my phone up on a stake holding a bush.

yes darth. we get this question a lot. i usually tell them about the retroreflectors on the moon.

we shine lasers at the reflectors left by the apollo astronauts to measure how far away the moon is!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_L...

Forgot to add 🔭 for the feed.

And I'm glad we were finally able to get this article published yesterday, before the government shutdown meant that NASA is no longer updating its website.

Is there a line that separates exoplanets with and without atmospheres — called the "cosmic shoreline"?

These stars are very active, sending out X-rays and flares, blasting the planets that orbit them. So it's not clear if we can extrapolate from the solar system. The program tests this hypothesis.