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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2024 October 12   
      
                          Northern Lights, West Virginia   
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Jonathan Eggleston   
      
      Explanation: A gravel country lane gently winds through this colorful   
      rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West   
      Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a   
      familiar sight. Shimmering curtains of aurora borealis or northern   
      lights definitely do not make regular appearances here, though.   
      Surprisingly vivid auroral displays were present on that night at very   
      low latitudes around the globe, far from their usual northern and   
      southern high latitude realms. The extensive auroral activity was   
      evidence of a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by the impact of a   
      coronal mass ejection (CME)   
      , an immense magnetized cloud of energetic plasma. The CME was launched   
      toward Earth from the active Sun following a powerful X-class solar   
      flare.   
      
             Growing Gallery: Global aurora during October 10/11, 2024   
                       Tomorrow's picture: aurora in motion   
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