Millions of Americans will get a rare glimpse of the northern lights on Thursday in the Northeast.

<div class="block">Millions of Americans will get a rare glimpse of the northern lights on Thursday in the Northeast.</div>

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Northern Lights Expected to Be Visible in 17 States

This week, millions of Americans will get a rare glimpse of the northern lights. A solar storm. This Thursday is expected to make the celestial phenomenon visible across 17 states in the northern us all the way from Washington to Maine. So peak viewing time will be between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time. That's according to federal forecasters, the northern lights most commonly seen at higher latitudes are caused by solar wind hitting earth's atmosphere and it would be gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Yes.