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Brandon Specktor

Thanksgiving auroras? Solar storm likely to hit Earth on Thursday and Friday, NOAA warns

A green aurora over a forest.

Get ready to look up on Thanksgiving night. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), millions of people in the U.S. and Canada may have a chance to see the Northern Lights on Thursday (Nov. 28) and Friday (Nov. 29) as a solar storm hurtles toward Earth.

According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, a huge concentration of solar particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME) launched from an active sunspot on Monday (Nov. 25) and has a good chance of striking Earth on Thursday or Friday, triggering a minor to moderate geomagnetic storm.

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