East Linn Northern Lights
The Aurora Borealis COAKLEY, above, shines above a logging operation early Tuesday morning, Jan. 20, on Swamp Mountain, east of Sweet Home.
The spectacular light show was caused by charged particles shot out from the sun that hit the Earth’s magnetic field and crash against the upper atmosphere
during a powerful geomagnetic solar storm that occurred last week. Local logger Donnie Arndt shot this photo at about 4 a.m. This radiation…