northern lights

     

Northern Lights is a common name for the aurora borealis (polar aurorae) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Trivia about northern lights

  • Sudbury's Festival Boreal in July celebrates this natural phenomenon
  • The technical term for this phenomenon is the Aurora Borealis
  • It's another name for the Aurora Borealis
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.) Princeton studies the physics of magnetic reconnection, which ionizes the upper atmosphere & produces this spectacular natural phenomenon
  • The city of Alta, well above the Arctic Circle, has renamed itself the Nordlysbyen Alta, after this display