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How NASA tracked the most intense solar storm in decades - EurekAlert


<p>May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades &mdash; and possibly one of the strongest displays of aurora on record in the past 500 years.</p>

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