ByTereza Pultarovapublishedabout 5 hours ago

Cannibalization can occur when the sun launches two eruptions within a short period of time.

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The sun has spat out two clouds of plasma in the past two days, which might trigger beautiful aurora displays observable much farther south than usual.

The twocoronal mass ejections(CMEs), eruptions of charged particles from thesun’s upper atmosphereknown as the corona, burst from the sun on Aug. 14 and 15 respectively, according to the U.K. forecasterMet Office(opens in new tab). As the CMEs cross the 900,000-mile (150 million kilometers) distance between the star and our planet, they might cannibalize each other, according toSpaceWeather.com(opens in…