Spectacular, Northern Lights
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Texans didn't have to wait for Christmas for a spectacular light show this year. On Tuesday night, the northern lights stretched far beyond their usual Arctic home, painting skies across the Lone Star State in shades of pink and red.
The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, are a natural spectacular light display that happens when charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
A coronal mass ejection happens when an enormous cloud of charged and highly magnetised plasma erupts from the solar corona into space, causing radio and magnetic disturbances on Earth. The Northern Lights, also called the aurora borealis, are typically only visible from northern latitudes.