Northern Lights May Be Visible Overnight in Parts of Northern U.S.

People as far south as Missouri reported sightings of the aurora borealis on Monday night, as forecasters said the phenomenon known as the northern lights would likely last for several more hours over clear skies in parts of the northern United States. The northern lights got their name because they typically light up the sky at higher latitudes. They “will be visible across much of the Northland the rest of this evening into tonight,” the National Weather Service office in Duluth, Minn., wrote late Monday on X, formerly Twitter. The...