Solar storms disrupt Earth's magnetic field

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Intense solar storm opens '2-way highway' for charged particles, sparking rare auroras on the sun

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Solar storms from our sun often punch into Earth 's magnetic field, or magnetosphere.

A surge of charged particles blasted from the sun and lit up skies as far south as Arizona and Arkansas .

Unconventionally, these particles momentarily switched off our planet's bow shock, an anomaly that opened up a " two -way highway" through which charged particles also flew to the sun.

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