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

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NASA 's Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft recorded a solar eruption in 2023 .

The solar wind often punches into Earth 's magnetic field and forms a bow shock on the sunward side of the field while detouring around our world.

This is when a surge of charged particles blasted from the sun and lit up skies as far south as Arizona and Arkansas as well as parts of Australia and New Zealand .

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