Aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, lit up skies across northern Utah overnight. Local NASA ambassador Patrick Wiggins said while it's not rare to see the lights in Utah, it is uncommon.
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"Basically the sun burps, and this time it burped really well and that was able to push it further south," he said. "What happens to cause this in the first place, not just here on Earth — we've seen it on other planets as well —you get this stuff coming from the sun and when it interacts with our upper atmosphere, depending on what gas is activated, you get these different colors.
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