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Active at Kp 4.3, solar wind 487 km/s. No storm expected in the next three days.

Live · Sunday 1 November

Illustration: a quiet, cloudy night with no aurora

Northern lights tonightIllustration

Within reach of 154 of 243 places

Columbus, United StatesNot tonight· near you

Kp indexHow stormy space is, 0 to 9

Last 24 hours, every 3 hours

Solar windSpeed past Earth, last 2 hours

487km/s · 300–500 is normal

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3-day forecastHighest Kp NOAA expects, by UTC day

The sun right now in quiet corona, 171 å, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

Quiet corona, 171 Å

The sun right nowNASA SDO, live

NOAA's live forecast map of the northern aurora

Live aurora mapNOAA, next 30 minutes

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