Photos show northern lights from around Pittsburgh area
The northern lights were on display in the Pittsburgh area on Tuesday night.
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The northern lights were on display in the Pittsburgh area on Tuesday night.
The aurora borealis will take to the skies again across Pennsylvania Monday night.
People from the United States and Canada to the United Kingdom, Poland, parts of China and Russia saw the northern lights this weekend.
NOAA said people as far south as Alabama may have seen the northern lights and that the sun could expel the strongest type of solar flares over the next few days.
Plasma particles from the sun are racing toward Earth's atmosphere at 2,000 miles per second.
"I always see strange things in the sky but this was insane," one woman who saw the mysterious spiral said.
"I could see the waves dancing in green all over the sky," he said of his flight during the G4 geomagnetic storm.