Topic: New Aurora Pictures: Solar Storms Trigger Northern Lights

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Northern lights dance over the Lyngan Alps in a picture taken Tuesday night near Tromsų, Norway. The brilliant auroras were triggered by a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that hit our planet Tuesday morning. A CME is a cloud of superheated gas and charged particles hurled off the sun.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/pictures/120125-solar-storm-auroras-northern-lights-earth-space-pictures/