The northern lights - aurora borealis - light up the night sky east of Denver, Colorado, on Nov. 11, 2025.
The northern lights as seen over northwest Leon County in Florida on Nov. 11, 2025.
The northern lights appear above houses in Des Moines' Highland Park neighborhood on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025.
A small group takes in a northern lights show looking out over Barnstable Harbor, Massachusetts in a 30-second time exposure on Nov. 11, 2025.
The Northern Lights shine bright in the sky over Putnam Lake in Patterson, New York on Tuesday night Nov. 11, 2025.
A car crosses Hulah Dam under the glow of the northern lights on Nov. 11, 2025, during a rare aurora sighting in northern Oklahoma.
The northern lights visible in Franklin on Nov. 11, 2025.
The northern lights are seen over Bayside, Wisconsin on Nov. 11, 2025.

You didn't have to live very far north to get a stunning view of the northern lights overnight on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

The beautiful dancing lights were visible in states as far south as Florida as a geomagnetic storm hit Earth's atmosphere. But not everyone got the same view.

Photos show a distant, purple glow in Florida; a dazzling green and maroon gradient in Colorado; and an eerie, ghostly color floating in the sky above Iowa.

The aurora borealis' kinetic, shape-shifting colors are part of its allure. Here's what it looked like above different states:

Northern lights in Colorado

Northern lights in Florida

Northern lights in Iowa

Northern lights in Massachusetts

Northern lights in New York

Northern lights in Oklahoma

Northern lights in Tennessee

Northern lights in Wisconsin

Contributing: Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Did my state see the northern lights? Here's what different states saw.

Reporting by Joel Shannon, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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