• NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO) released the images above on its Facebook page earlier today. NASA said:
One very positive about this event is that aurorae could be visible between the yellow and the red line. Of course the weather has to cooperate and light pollution of a city can wash out the aurorae. This time, around the moon is not playing a big role.
• In other words, the moon is a slender crescent in the morning sky - coincidently very near the planets Venus and Jupiter before dawn this weekend. All in all this weekend's predawn is not to be missed!

• Space weather forecasters are saying that auroras might be seen at northerly U.S. latitudes in the hours between midnight and dawn on July 14, 2012 - in other words, tonight. The same will be true for similar latitudes around the world. The source is an X1.4-class solar flare that erupted from giant sunspot group 1520 July 12. The sunspot was directly facing Earth when the X-flare occurred. The flare

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