People in Canada were treated to a natural display of bedazzling spectacle when the Aurora borealis lights danced across the northern skies on Tuesday. Social media got flooded with posts that showed the magical display of lights.

Dazzling it maybe, the aurora borealis light show erupted when a pair of solar belches cast a cloud of magnetised gas into space, triggering a strong geomagnetic storm. The Space Weather Prediction Centre of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration saw a "severe" G4 geomagnetic storm Tuesday morning around 9:58 a.m. ET. The two coronal mass ejections or CMEs, left the sun on March 15, NOAA said.

Emma Spanswick, associate director of the Aurora Imaging Group at the University of Calgary, told CBC News the particle environment around the Earth will get “quite disturbed and that might mean that you'll see a lot of aurora as the night falls."

The disturbance, it seemed, was well accepted with open arms. Photographs showing various hues of the Aurora borealis lights, which actually occur 100 kilometres above the earth, likewise lighted up Twitter and Facebook sites. “Insane,” a woman in Dalton, Alaska wrote. A local in Saskatoon tweeted they were “amazing auroras.” A person with the moniker of AstroSamantha described it was “a magnificent collision of colours on the earth horizon.”

The Ottawa Citizens reports that auroras occur when the earth’s upper atmosphere collides with charged particles. “The result is billions of tiny flashes of light that spread across the sky. Since these flashes happen sequentially, the lights appear to dance.”

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