Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the evening of April 23-24, from Marquette, Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior.
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the evening of April 23-24, from Marquette, Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior.
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the evening of April 23-24, from Marquette, Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior.
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the evening of April 23-24, from Marquette, Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior.
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the evening of April 23-24, from Marquette, Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior.
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the evening of April 23-24, from Marquette, Michigan, south shore of Lake Superior.
The aurora as seen from atop Murphy Dome mountain near Fairbanks in the early morning of April 12, 2012.
Skywatcher Shauna M. Jackson sent in this picture taken on April 22, 2012. She writes: "I took this last night when I was shooting the Aurora and stars, just east of Elk Island Park, in Alberta Canada. I caught one little Lyrid Meteor."
Photographer Bill Allen of Ralph, Saskatchewan in Canada captured this amazing view of a Lyrid meteor and the northern lights during the Lyrid meteor shower peak overnight on April 21-22, 2012
The northern lights flicker above Alaska's Murphy Dome mountain on April 12, 2012.
Auroramax, an automated camera took this photo and tweeted: "Latest image of aurora borealis above Yellowknife, NWT taken at 00:49 MDT on April 17, 2012."
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora taken during the weekend of April 28-29, 2012, from the shore of Lake Superior. The landmark in the foreground is Miner's Castle.
Skywatcher Shawn Malone sent in this photo of an aurora and the Milky Way taken during the weekend of April 28-29, 2012, from the shore of Lake Superior.