Sky-Spectacle: 'Green Curtains' of the Northern Lights Stretch Across Texas and Florida

Residents in Texas capture stunning photos of the rare Northern Lights, visible as green and pink streaks across the southern skies during a powerful geomagnetic storm on November 11. (Credit: YouTube)

Residents across Texas and Florida experienced an extraordinary night sky this week as the Aurora Borealis surged far south of its usual Arctic home.

Triggered by a G4 geomagnetic storm, the northern lights painted the skies with streaks of green and pink — a spectacle so rare at these latitudes that many locals had never witnessed it before.