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A Strong Geomagnetic Storm Will Make Northern Lights More Visible

A Strong Geomagnetic Storm Will Make Northern Lights More Visible

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As 2024 wanes, the skies over parts of the United States might use a spectacular display screen of nature's fireworks in the kind of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, thanks to increased solar activity.Numerous eruptions happened on the sun's surface area over the weekend, with 2 sending out product speeding towards Earth. When this product, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), reaches Earth on New Year's Eve, it will communicate with Earth's environment to form auroras."There have actually been numerous M-Class and X-Class solar flares in current days that are anticipated to make a minimum of a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetosphere at some point over the next 48-72 hours in between Monday night and Wednesday night," Brandon Buckingham, a meteorologist at AccuWeather, informed...