Solar filament rips away from sun and causes aurora borealis over US several days later
First, a filament from the sun and then later - days later - a geomagnetic storm over Earth, producing auroras in the northern hemisphere, clearly visible from the US.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that this is the filament eruption that disturbed the Earth's magnetic field enough to produce spectacular northern lights.