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The northern lights were recently visible in Indiana.

Our nature-loving web producer, Gwen, explained the phenomenon beautifully in a message to our newsroom last week.

“The aurora borealis is visible so far south because of a particularly big storm on the sun that flung bits of the sun’s corona out towards Earth,” she explained. “The colors we see are from when those bits hit Earth’s magnetosphere. . . It’s like projectiles hitting our planet’s shield.”

We asked our community of Mirror Indy friends and neighbors to send us their best photos of the colorful night sky.

Here are a few of our favorites.

“In this fleeting spectacle in the cornfields of Kokomo, I was reminded of life’s incredible beauty and the magic that exists in our world. I was feeling truly alive in that moment of cosmic splendor.”

— Angie Tsay

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See how the northern lights looked around Indiana

by Jenna Watson, Mirror Indy
October 16, 2024

<h1>See how the northern lights looked around Indiana</h1> <p class="byline">by Jenna Watson, Mirror Indy <br />October 16, 2024</p> <p>The northern lights were recently visible in Indiana. </p> <p>Our nature-loving web producer, Gwen, explained <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/10/where-to-see-northern-lights-thursday-solar-storm/75604973007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the phenomenon</a> beautifully in a message to our newsroom last week.</p> <p>"The aurora borealis is visible so far south because of a particularly big storm on the sun that flung bits of the sun's corona out towards Earth," she explained. "The colors we see are from when those bits hit Earth's magnetosphere. . . It's like projectiles hitting our planet's shield."</p> <p>We asked our community of Mirror Indy friends and neighbors to send us their best photos of the colorful night sky.</p> <p>Here are a few of our favorites.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_01-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-37904" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The northern lights captured Oct. 10, 2024, in Rising Sun, Ind.</figcaption></figure> <div class="wp-block-columns"> <div class="wp-block-column"> <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_02-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-37905" style="width:394px;height:auto" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The view of aurora borealis Oct. 10, 2024, in Poland, Ind.</figcaption></figure> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-column"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_04-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-37907" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Plymouth, Ind.</figcaption></figure> </p></div> </p></div> <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_03-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-37906" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Angie Tsay captured aurora borealis Oct. 10, 2024, in Kokomo, Ind. “In this fleeting spectacle in the cornfields of Kokomo, I was reminded of life’s incredible beauty and the magic that exists in our world. I was feeling truly alive in that moment of cosmic splendor,” Tsay said.</figcaption></figure> <div class="wp-block-columns"> <div class="wp-block-column"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_05-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-37908" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kokomo, Ind.</figcaption></figure> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-column"> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"> <p>“In this fleeting spectacle in the cornfields of Kokomo, I was reminded of life’s incredible beauty and the magic that exists in our world. I was feeling truly alive in that moment of cosmic splendor.”</p> <p> <cite>— Angie Tsay</cite></p></blockquote></div> </p></div> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_09-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-37912" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The view of aurora borealis, seen in Indianapolis.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_06-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-37909" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Fort Wayne, Ind.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_07-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-37910" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Crawfordsville, Ind.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_08-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-37911" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Plymouth, Ind.</figcaption></figure><figcaption class="blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption">(Above center) Emma Fiakcs, a Purdue University student studying photography, captured these photos in Crawfordsville, Ind. “All I did was adjust the brightness on my camera. I was visiting friends there and I got this around 9:30 or 10 p.m.,” Fiakcs said.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Northern-lights-aurora-borealis_10-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-37913" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The view of aurora borealis Oct. 10, 2024, in Avon, Ind.</figcaption></figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mirrorindy.org/see-how-the-northern-lights-looked-around-indiana/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mirrorindy.org&quot;&gt;Mirror Indy&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/mirrorindy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-Mirror-Indy-square-logo-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://mirrorindy.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=37902&amp;amp;ga4=G-X0R0QW371R&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://mirrorindy.org/see-how-the-northern-lights-looked-around-indiana/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/mirrorindy.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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