Part of the United States could see the Northern Lights on Friday.
The Space Weather Prediction Center says at least five coronal mass ejections have been directed toward Earth.The coronal mass ejections were observed heading toward Earth and are expected to combine and slam into the Earth’s atmosphere sometime Friday.
NASA Ambassador Mike Overacker from Roanoke, VA managed to photograph the massive cluster of sunspots.For perspective, the sunspot grouping is the diameter of 15 earths. The sun itself could hold 1.3 million Earths inside of it.If strong enough, the storms could impact infrastructure, potentially disrupting communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.
The last severe geomagnetic storm watch was March 23, 2024, which created an incredible viewing of the northern lights.
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