It’s been a great year for seeing the aurora borealis way down here in the Boston area. For the second time this year I went on a road trip north to see the northern lights, this time with my good friends Rachel and Nate. They were driving north and, since they live south of me, would drive right by my house. So they picked me up and we headed north.  We were having a hard…

This past Friday, we got to witness an incredible light show outside. We’ve been seeing massive X-class solar flares from a massive sunspot complex the width of 17 Earths, and one even came with a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). All of this energy makes for amazing light shows, along with some high-frequency radio signal disruption. On Friday, I went outside into our back yard to look north, and I saw a hazy light. I was…