An eruption of charged material from the Sun will create vivid displays of Northern Lights as far south as the Midwest on Labor Day, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

A solar event known as a full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME) was seen by NOAA and NASA satellites erupting from the Sun on Saturday, prompting the SWPC to issue a Geomagnetic Storm Watch through Tuesday. This charged energy from the Sun is traveling at 2 million mph through space and will likely reach Earth beginning Monday night.

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Unlike a regular CME, which departs from one area, halo CME emissions appear as a ring on a coronagraph image. According to the SWPC, full halo CMEs from the front side of the Sun, like the one ob

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