Sheena McGhee snapped this photo of the Aurora Borealis between Colony and Le Roy Tuesday night.
Rare geomagnetic storms made the Northern Lights visible to much of the continental United States, even reaching as far south as Mexico.
Tuesday night’s spectacular light show was due to a phenomenon called coronal mass ejections, which are huge blasts of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun’s atmosphere. They grow in size as they approach Earth.
With more solar activity Wednesday, this week’s storms are particularly intense.
