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Northern lights dazzle Toronto and southern Ontario

A rare sight for southern Ontario, CBC reporters captured photos Thursday nights brilliant light show in and around Toronto.

Thursday night's brilliant light show was captured in photos by CBC reporters in and around Toronto

The Northern Lights streak green across the sky above a rural road surrounded by silhouetted trees. A car with its headlights on drives in the distance
The northern lights were visible in parts of southern Ontario Thursday night and Friday morning. The light show was caused by a geomagnetic storm. (Lane Harrison/CBC)

Torontonians may be used to bright lights, but Thursday night was brighter and prettier than usual.

Due to a geomagnetic storm, the northern lights were visible around Toronto and parts of southern Ontario late Thursday evening into Friday morning.

In Toronto, CBC's Nicole Mortillaro photographed the lights dancing above The Beaches in the city's east end Thursday night.The Balmy Beach Club is visible in the distance.

Light tinges of pink and green from the Northern Lights cover the night sky above a beach in Toronto
(Nicole Mortillaro/CBC)

Even above the downtown lightsand the CN Tower, the red hue of the Aurora shonethrough.

The CN Tower and downtown Toronto are visible in the distance at night. In the foreground, the silhouette of a beach and trees. In the sky, the faint red of the Northern Lights
(Nicole Mortillaro/CBC)

Over near the Scarborough Bluffs, CBC'sRozennNicolle got a shot of a bright green sky above the waters of Bluffers Park Marina.

The northern lights shine above a lake and cottage in Scarborough, streaking the evening sky with bright greens
(Nicolle Rozenn/CBC)

And further north, thoughnot as far as one might expect, CBC Toronto's Lane Harrison caught an even more dazzling light show in Bracebridge, Ont., Thursday.

The Northern Lights cover the night sky in purple, with small streaks of green. The silhouette of evergreen trees cover the bottom third of the sky
(Lane Harrison/CBC)

The town is about 150 kilometres north of Toronto, and the rural sky made for an even more brilliant canvas.

The Northern Lights streak across the night sky, green and pink, above the silhouette of a forest and telephone pole.
(Lane Harrison/CBC)

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, arecaused by solar particles that are flung from the sun toward the Earth by an explosion of energy on the sun's surface called a coronal mass ejection.

This year they've been surprisingly active in southwestern Ontario, with solar activity also making them highly visible in parts of the region back in May.