(NEXSTAR) — Activity on the sun could make the northern lights visible to a handful of states on June 25, the latest auroral forecast shows.

On Monday, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center reported that a coronal hole, or CH, had been spotted on the sun. These are areas on the sun that are cooler and less dense regions of open and unipolar magnetic fields, NOAA explains. Their openness allows solar wind to escape at higher speeds, known as High Speed Streams, or HSS.

CH HSS are capable of causing geomagnetic storms on Earth, according to NOAA, though not typically as strong as those brought on by coronal mass ejections,

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