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Photos: The Northern Lights Put on a Show

A powerful geomagnetic storm brought spectacular light displays to night skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with sightings of pink, red, and green lights as far south as Florida and Oklahoma.

By Alan Taylor
A view of the northern lights, looking straight up at swirls of pink and green lights
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The aurora borealis, or northern lights, visible over Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 11, 2025
Green and red curtains of light, seen in the night sky above a light house
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The northern lights glow in the sky over St Mary’s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, England, on the North East coast, in the early hours of November 12, 2025.
A photographer sets up a camera beside a lake at night, with a red and green aurora in the sky beyond.
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In Oklahoma, a photographer sets up at Hulah Lake to capture the northern lights on November 11, 2025, during a rare aurora display.
Several people look toward a glowing aurora in the distance.
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West of Cocoa, Florida, spectators observe the aurora borealis as it appears over the St. Johns River, on November 11, 2025.
Sheets of red and green light glow in the night sky above a barn.
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The aurora borealis lights up the night sky over Monroe, Wisconsin, on November 11, 2025.
The northern lights form a broad streak of red across the night sky, seen looking straight up.
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The northern lights stretch out above Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 11, 2025.
The night sky above a boarded-up wooden school house glows red and green.
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The aurora borealis lights up the sky above Monroe, Wisconsin, on November 11, 2025.
A night view of a distant car's headlights, and a red-and-green-colored aurora in the sky.
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A car crosses Hulah Dam under the glow of the northern lights on November 11, 2025, during a rare aurora sighting in northern Oklahoma.
Red and green glowing light appears in the sky above houses and a tree.
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The northern lights light up the sky east of Denver, Colorado, on November 11, 2025.
Green and red curtains of light hang in the night sky above farm equipment in a field.
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The night sky over Monroe, Wisconsin, glows during a geomagnetic storm on November 11, 2025.

About the Author

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.