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AURORA COULD REACH UNUSUALLY FAR SOUTH TONIGHT AS STRONG SOLAR STORM HITS


THE NORTHERN LIGHTS MIGHT BE VISIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS,
MIDWEST AND NORTHEAST AND POSSIBLY A BIT FARTHER SOUTH

By Dan Stillman
Updated November 30, 2023 at 10:32 a.m. EST|Published November 29, 2023 at 1:09
p.m. EST

A solar flare erupts Tuesday. (SpaceWeather.com)

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Multiple explosions on the sun this week have unleashed four bursts of plasma
from the sun’s corona toward Earth. Known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs,
these blasts are expected to consolidate into a supersize CME capable of
triggering a strong geomagnetic storm and aurora visible in the northern United
States and Europe on Thursday night into early Friday.


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