Night Auroras as they appeared from across the hemisphere
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If you saw it firsthand then you had no choice but to notice it, but for the rest of us who weren’t so lucky, here’s the deal: yesterday a coronal mass ejection, a.k.a. a CME, a.k.a. a solar storm or a huge burst of solar wind emanating from our sun slammed into our atmosphere at about 2 p.m. EDT. That mass of charged particles compressed Earth’s magnetic field and sparked a pretty intense geomagnetic storm, resulting in what you see here: breathtaking auroras that are usually confined to high latitudes spilled out across North America, reaching as far south as New Mexico and Alabama.
Ålesund, Norway Northern Lights
Marquette, Michigan Northern Lights
Ozark, Arkansas Nothern Lights
Cross Plains, Wisconsin Northern Lights
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Northern Lights
Kvaløya, Norway Northern Lights