'Machine-gun sun' could bring auroras to more than a dozen states this Independence Day weekend

The sun launched a rapid-fire barrage of solar flares this week. According to Live Science, it released ten significant flares in twenty-four hours — activity researchers are calling "machine-gun sun." And there's a bonus: the solar activity should paint auroras across more than a dozen U-S states over the Independence Day weekend. If you're anywhere from the northern plains northward, you might catch nature's own light show.

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