The aurora borealis graced the landscape here in the Mid-State this week, sending many running for their phones or marveling at the rare event.
“I stepped out the front door and saw them over my neighbor’s house, and I was like, ‘Oh! It was so bright, it looked so beautiful,'” said a local photographer, Colt Capperrune.
Ron Henderson, the chair of physics and astronomy at MTSU, says the northern lights appear when the sun flares — or exhibits explosions — raining particles down to Earth…