Coloradans flocked to backyards, parks and empty dirt roads Tuesday night, searching for the best spot to see (and photograph) the northern lights.

A geomagnetic storm lit up the sky with hues of red and green, a phenomenon that typically has to be “severe” on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center scale to reach Colorado’s skies, so far from the poles.

Northern lights return to Colorado skies tonight as severe solar storms continue

"Just wow!!" one Colorado storm chaser wrote on social media alongside photos of the lights from North Sterling State Park in Logan County. "I've seen the aurora borealis overhead before when we visited Prince Edward Island but seeing it like this not far from home is just crazy!"

Others said the aurora boreali

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