Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis. When the energized particles from coronal mass ejections reach Earth’s magnetic field, they interact with gases in the atmosphere to create different colored lights in the sky.

Northern Lights may dazzle again tonight as a severe geomagnetic storm reaches peak intensity across regions. Follow live.

The northern lights were visible Tuesday night across the Chicago area, illuminating the sky with brightly colorful displays due to severe solar storms.

Scientists anticipate less cloud cover, as an intense geomagnetic storm could make the northern lights more visible in Bucks County tonight.

The Statesman collaborated with readers to gather photos of the aurora borealis throughout Central Texas. Here are the eerily beautiful results.

Solar storms brought the colors of the northern lights into East Tennessee Tuesday night, and plenty of WVLT viewers captured the phenomenon on camera.