Kentucky got a rare light show over the weekend, thanks to a very large solar storm. Mark Pitts is an assistant professor at Eastern Kentucky University’s college of Physics, Geosciences and Astronomy. He said the sun launched a much higher number of solar particles than usual – and as a result, much of North America got to see what’s called Northern Lights.
“And it just so happened to basically hit us dead on, which is a little bit just down to random chance, because of course, we're orbiting the sun, so we're a moving target.
