Aurora Borealis over Minnesota
Photographer Thomas Spence: "A beautiful Valentine's night display of aurora borealis over Lake Superior in Schroeder, Minnesota tonight. The lights cover of ice on Lake Superior was moving and shifting and creating a symphony of sound to go along with the visual display."
Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), auroras are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called space weather. When energetic particles from space collide with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, they can cause the colorful glow that we call auroras.
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/auroras/
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.
Location: Schroeder, Minnesota
Date: Feb. 14, 2026
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