Eli5- How did my phone camera capture the northern lights

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I read on Facebook to take a picture of the sky in my town even if it looked like nothing to the naked eye. Sure enough the picture was a gorgeous picture of the northern lights- bright purples and greens. It looked like just a dark sky when I looked up. How did my phone get a picture of that when I couldn’t see it?

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Cameras can be more sensitive than the human eye in low light levels. This ltes the capture images of things too faint to easily see.

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