The Northern Lights are putting on a glow show in Marquette, captured by a local photographer.

"The Northern Lights have been acting up again in Upper Michigan," Shawn Malone said Thursday.

"This morning I caught a brief active display when the fog cleared."

The lights over Marquette are part of a vast and intense light show throughout northern latitudes, sparked by one of the strongest magnetic storms in years.

A massive burst of solar energy began hitting the Earth's magnetic field on Monday, according to spaceweather.com.

The Northern Lights shone so bright in Scandinavia that they were visible through rainclouds, observers said.

Aurora watchers have also been enjoying a stunning video of the Southern Lights -- and wildfires in Australia -- recently released by NASA (shown below).

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) used a digital camera to capture several hundred photographs of the aurora australis while passing over the Indian Ocean on Sept. 17, NASA said. Those lights were triggered by sun explosions on Sept. 14.

The video captures from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia.

Want to know more about aurora? Here's NASA's explanation (click here for more):

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