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Daisy Dobrijevic

Auroras galore! Severe geomagnetic storm sparks stunning northern lights across US (photos)

A curtain of green light fills the sky, auroras dance across the sky with trees below.

Better late than never. 

Rolling in about 6 hours later than predicted, a huge plume of plasma and magnetic field from the sun, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) slammed into Earth, triggering a severe geomagnetic storm. 

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