PHOTO GALLERY | Northern lights create dazzling spectacle in the eastern Idaho sky
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Many across eastern Idaho had a chance to catch a glimpse of the northern lights on Friday night and early Saturday morning thanks to rare solar flares disrupting the Earth’s geomagnetic field.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Friday evening. The agency hasn’t issued a similar watch since January 2005.
Here is a gallery of photos taken of the Northern lights by EastIdahoNews.com users. You can see hundreds of other submitted photos here.
