This week, North America was audience to an unusually large and powerful solar storm, which created dazzling Northern Lights across larges swaths of the continent.

Indeed, from Canada down to Arizona and even Florida, the aurora borealis was visible.

Photographer Daniel Forster was ready, and captured some truly stunning views of the colorful sky over Colorado’s Garden of the Gods.

The photos below showcase the extent of the vibrant aurora, which look astounding behind the craggy rock formation outside of Colorado Springs.

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A penny for your thoughts on this one…

The U.S. penny, long seen as a virtually-valueless coin, has finally ceased production at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

Indeed, the very last new penny was minted on Wednesday, bringing a long end to the copper-plated coin.

The Abraham Lincoln penny that we know so well has been in circulation since 1909, though the United States has had a once cent coin as far back as 1787.

Over the years, as prices have risen, the usefulness of a penny has come into question, especially as it costs over 2¢ to make a single 1¢ coin.

With the retirement of the penny, consumers will still be able to use them as currency, but they will no longer be produced.

With billions of them still in circulation, we don’t see the penny becoming a collector’s item for quite some time, however.

Unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show, the company’s new autonomous wheelchair concept trades traditional wheels for four folding, articulated legs.

Entitled ‘Walk Me’, the concept is distinctly elegant but also alien-like.

The legs extend and contract like a robotic animal, letting the chair climb stairs, handle uneven ground, and even lower itself gently to floor level.

The effect is part gentle companion, part sci-fi exoskeleton. Instead of treating obstacles as barriers, the chair simply changes shape, adapting its stance to the environment. The way the legs articulate and fold to ‘sit’ look particularly creature-like.

A whopping 143 years after it started construction, the massive, ornate Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona is nearing completion.

New video showcases the enormous cathedral’s lower cross being placed by crane, officially making it the tallest church in the world.

The Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí is the mastermind behind the design, which is unlike anything else in the world of architecture, and combines Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms.

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