The new year started with a dazzling display of Aurora lights, with Alaska seeing most of the action from New Year's Eve into New Year's Day.

A solar storm could bring the Northern Lights to Hudson Valley on New Year's Eve, but the weather might not cooperate.

A geomagnetic storm is expected this weekend when an burst of plasma and magnetic field from Sun will glance off Earth.

That same activity can lead to aurorae, however, such as the northern and southern lights. This time around that meant that the northern lights could be seen at relatively low latitudes, including as far south as the midwest.

The Northern Lights are caused with charged particles, ejected by the sun, interact with gases in our atmosphere. Oxygen atoms glow green - the colour most often seen in the Northern Lights. Nitrogen atoms emit purple,

There's going to be yet another chance to see the Northern Lights in Maine tonight. There have been viewing opportunities all week after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center issued an alert Sunday night that the aurora borealis may be visible at high latitudes on Dec.