Northern Lights, Texas #3: Midnight Rays near Paris

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It is a rare day when the aurora borealis — the northern lights — are visible from Texas. But 2024 was near the top of the sun’s 11-year cycle, and it had days like that in May and October. In May, near Paris, Texas, the lights near sundown had a bit of green and mostly covered the northern half of the sky like a blanket. Then, toward midnight, the lights had shrunk toward the center of the northern horizon and settled into concentrated beams of light.

Northern Lights, Texas #3: Midnight Rays near Paris
The image is mostly a dark and cloudy night sky, but near the horizon shine bright reddish-pink vertical bands of the northern lights, low in the sky.© Randy Heffner inspect image detail »
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17 Jul 2025; updated 19 Jul 2025
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Randy Heffner

Randy lives at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and culture — reading, watching, walking, and sometimes creating in search of our better selves. Film and photography have a lot to do with it, but anyway, art. The tie is an anomaly.

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