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A festive auroral display may be put on for a lucky few when coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The solar storms are also responsible for generating auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis.

The mission was designed to study the sun’s outer atmosphere and help researchers learn about how solar storms erupt into space. NASA is preparing to “taste” the sun on Christmas Eve.