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Just hours after the winter solstice, a mass of energetic particles from the Sun smashed into the magnetic field around Earth. The strong solar wind stream stirred up a display of northern lights over northern Canada. via NASA ift.tt/2hkyREI
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Lights in the Darkness was taken on December 22, 2016 at 09:14AM