Amazing Aurora Photos from the Great Solar Storm of 1989 (Gallery)

Friday, March 7, 2014 - 18:01 in Astronomy & Space

In March 1989, a sunspot unleashed a solar flare towards the Earth that caused a spectacular display of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, reaching all the way down to the Gulf Coast.

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