1. Posted on 23 January, 2012

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Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway
Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal  mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had  erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel  through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.
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    discoverynews:

    Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway

    Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.

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