It wasn’t just the balloons at the Fiesta that were glowing last week. 

The Northern Lights, a natural display of light in the Northern Hemisphere, lit up New Mexico Thursday night with a colorful, bright sky.

Thanks to a severe solar storm, the spectacle could be seen throughout Northern New Mexico on Oct. 10, including in the East Mountains.

Kevin Hendricks is a local news editor with nm.news. He is a two-decade veteran of local news as a sportswriter and assistant editor with the ABQ Journal and Rio Rancho Observer.

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *