Today, a long dark filament of magnetism lifted off the surface of the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is recording the action, which is producing aurora's much further south.
The rare photograph was taken by: Photographer Dan McBride at Lat 38.8'N at Big Hill Lookout, west of Lake Tahoe
Here is a link to other photo's of the Aurora's caught in the past 24-hours
http://spaceweathergallery.com/aurora_gallery.html
As the filament moves through the sun's atmosphere, it could propel a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space--much like the one that sparked a strong geomagnetic storm on May 28th. Solar events are being monitored on coronagraph that could produce images for evidence of a CME
The filament can be seen on the Space weather site http://www.spaceweather.com/
(I've seen an amazing Aurora and they are breathtaking and unforgettable)!