Photos: Northern lights awes spectators in Canada, northern US

AccuWeather

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, stretched far enough south that a large swatch of the northern United States was able to catch the glimmering lights, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center. A geomagnetic storm alert went into effect on Saturday night as the lights lit up the sky. The solar storm was triggered by extremely fast solar wind, according to AccuWeather...