People in the far northeast, upper Midwest and Washington state could be treated to the display — if other factors come together.
, commonly known as the"northern lights" in the Northern Hemisphere, is created when charged particles from the sun interact with the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. The aurora borealis is over the north pole, and aurora australis is over the south.in Minnesota, Alaska and Washington, and in parts of Canada due to a G2, or moderate, event.
This weekend's event is not expected to cause technology disruptions, the space weather prediction center said. The coronal mass ejection happened Thursday around 11:30 a.m. ET, and it left the sun at around 604 miles per second, the center said. NASA said it was an"X1-class flare," and its Solar Dynamics Observatory
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