The explosion crashed into Earth's magnetic field on Tuesday allowing people to see the light show as far south as Kansas, Maine and Kentucky, the Daily Mail reports.
The pink and green clouds shimmering against a star-speckled sky started early in the morning.
“At around midnight I looked out of my window and saw the light show - it came sooner than I thought,' photographer from Presque Isle, Maine, who caught sight of the aurora, said. “Auroras are unpredictable, but they are expected to show two and a half days after a solar flare”.
Although the storm has subsided now, the forecasters predict a 50 percent chance of more polar geomagnetic storms tonight.
 Daily Mail