Besides green beers, St. Patrick’s Day revelers — and many others in the northern hemisphere (and some even in the south!) — were treated to green skies last night as a “pair of solar belches…cast a cloud of magnetized gas into space, triggering a strong geomagnetic storm.” Instagrammers were busy uploading pics — here are 20 of our favorite.

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