Solar Blast (VIDEO)

University of Iowa

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Physicists captured a string of 10 coronal mass ejections from the sun (white dot) and tracked how they merged on their journey to Earth (blue dot) that resulted in the Mother's Day 2024 geomagnetic storms that produced aurora that may have been the strongest in the past 500 years.

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Shirsh Soni, University of Iowa

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