Photos: Northern Lights dance across Montana's Big Sky
- MONTANA LEE NEWSPAPERS PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Updated
- 0
From the west to the east, Montanans were given a front row seat to the Aurora Borealis, also known as Northern Lights Friday night.
The geomagnetic storm that crashed into earth was "an unusual and potentially historic event," according to Clinton Wallace, director of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
Northern Lights fill the sky above Helena's westside on May 10.
THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record
Northern Lights light up the sky near Arlee, Mont. on May 10.
JOSHUA MURDOCK, Missoulian
The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow above the horizon in Bernice on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
JOSEPH SCHELLER, The Montana Standard
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
Campers at Deadman's Basin are treated to the aurora borealis show Friday night and into the early morning hours on Saturday.
LARRY MAYER, Billings Gazette
The aurora borealis put on quite a show Friday night and into the early morning hours on Saturday.
LARRY MAYER, Billings Gazette
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
The moon sets at Deadman's Basin as the aurora borealis puts a show Friday night and into the early morning hours on Saturday.
LARRY MAYER, Billings Gazette
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow above the horizon in Elk Park on Friday, May 10, 2024.
JOSEPH SCHELLER, The Montana Standard
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
Invenergy's wind farm at Judith Gap is silhouetted against the aurora borealis in May 2024.
LARRY MAYER, Billings Gazette
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
The aurora borealis put on a show over a pond near Broadview Friday night and into the early morning hours on Saturday.
LARRY MAYER, Billings Gazette
Jeremy Perkins, of Harlowton, photographs the aurora borealis show Friday night and into the early morning hours on Saturday.
LARRY MAYER, Billings Gazette
The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow above the horizon in Bernice on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
JOSEPH SCHELLER, The Montana Standard
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glow above the horizon in Elk Park on Friday, May 10, 2024.
JOSEPH SCHELLER, The Montana Standard
Aurora Borealis glimmers across the sky on May 10 turning it into a spectrum of colors like, green, blue, purple, pink and yellow.
SONNY TAPIA, Independent Record
The aurora borealis taken just south of Arlee, May 10, 2024.Â
Photo by Joshua Murdock
The aurora borealis taken just south of Arlee, May 10, 2024.Â
Photo by Joshua Murdock
The aurora borealis taken just south of Arlee, May 10, 2024.Â
Photo by Joshua Murdock
The aurora borealis taken just south of Arlee, May 10, 2024.Â
Photo by Joshua Murdock
The aurora borealis taken just south of Arlee, May 10, 2024.Â
Photo by Joshua Murdock
The aurora borealis over the Ceretana grain elevator in Missoula, May 10, 2024.Â
Photo by Joshua MurdockLocations
Related to this collection
The most significant geomagnetic storm since at least 2003 brought the Northern Lights to places that have rarely seen them before. Parts of America will have another chance Saturday night if you missed it.Â
