Night Sky Comes Alive With Aurora Borealis Light Show

At 6:45 EDT, a solar impulse was detected in the Earth's atmosphere according to the Canadian Space Agency. This is a result of particles from the sun being hurled through space following a Coronal Mass Ejection. A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is aAccuweather's astronomy report includes a graphic of the United States showing that the occurence of the Northern Lights, also called aurora borealis, could best be visible over parts of the mid-Atlantic, including parts of Maryland. According to theIt's rare to see the Northern lights down here (Sarah Palin can see both Russia andthe aurora borealis from her porch) but ours comes thanks to a nice big solar flare that happened Thursday morning; that explosion on the sunIf you've always wanted to feast your eyes on the aurora borealis but haven't had the time or the money to travel to areas of the world where the

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