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An image showing beautiful pink and green auroras over Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on May 10

Auroras painted the skies over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on May 10. A massive solar storm caused such light displays, normally confined closer to the poles, to be visible at unusually low latitudes.

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By Adam Mann

Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the strongest displays of auroras in half a millennium.