"At around 9 o¡¯clock on the night of March 25, the sky above my house in Seattle lit up with an astonishing display. I know this not because I happened to see it ¡ª I was inside, as I am too often, working at my computer ¡ª but because my Twitter feed was suddenly full of different versions of the same, uncanny video. The earliest clips captured what looked like a single streak of light, fracturing outward into a shimmering cascade. What came next looked like the world¡¯s largest and longest-lasting firework, or a huge shower of comets hitting all at once, or a waterfall of light falling sideways."
How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal
