A cannibal coronal mass ejection may be on its way to Earth after a pair of solar eruption-induced CMEs joined forces. Amid those fireworks, Sunspot AR3078 blasted several M-class flares. ['Cannibal' solar bursts may bring auroras as far south as New York](https://www.space.com/cannibal-cme-aurora-new-york)

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