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Solar Flare to Produce Spectacular Northern Lights [1]

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AccuWeather.com-3/16/13, Vickie Frantz

 

This photograph of the Northern Lights is courtesy of Philippe Moussette at Observatoire Mont Cosmos, Quebec, Canada.

 

An Earth-Directed coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred during the early morning hours Friday.

The resulting solar flare was pointed directly at the United States for a duration of nearly two hours, according to Hunter Outten. Outten is a contributing forecaster for the AccuWeather Astronomy page.

 

Please see AccuWeather.com [2] for more on this story.

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[2] http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/solar-flare-to-produce-spectac/8181823
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[4] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/tags/northern-lights
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