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In pictures: solar storms and the Aurora Borealis

by The Week team
8 Mar 2012
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Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights

Rune Stoltz Bertinussen

 geomagnetic activity on the Sun which has seen three huge 'coronal mass ejections' and solar flares. 

X5.4 solar flare

Today's solar storm

Aurora Borealis

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