AccuWeather.com-3/16/13, Vickie Frantz
This photograph of the Northern Lights is courtesy of Philippe Moussette at Observatoire Mont Cosmos, Quebec, Canada.
An Earth-Directed coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred during the early morning hours Friday.
The resulting solar flare was pointed directly at the United States for a duration of nearly two hours, according to Hunter Outten. Outten is a contributing forecaster for the AccuWeather Astronomy page.
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