Auroras may appear in the coming week as solar activity increases

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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center, colorful aurora could soon reappear over parts of the United States - including the northern and upper Midwestern states from New York to Idaho - as a result of a solar storm that could hit Earth. meet.

The center, a division of the National Weather Service, has issued a modern geomagnetic storm watch, known as a G2, for Friday and Saturday. Unlike the G5, or extreme geomagnetic storm, ...