KEARNEY — For the second night in a row, auroras appeared faintly on the northern horizon in central Nebraska as a strong solar storm continued to impact Earth.
The geomagnetic storms occurred when two coronal mass ejections (CME), large blasts of plasma, impacted Earth’s magnetic field. Two CME’s arrived on Earth on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
The resulting storm reached G4 (Severe) levels, the second highest on a five-step scale that is used by the Space Weather Prediction Center.
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