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A major eruption on the sun on Friday produced some spectacular displays of the aurora borealis - Northern Lights - over the weekend. I haven't seen any reports from Maryland yet, but here are some terrific photos from other parts of the country.
And here's a shot of the solar flare and coronal mass ejection on Friday that caused all the excitement, shot by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
