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More sightings of the Northern Lights with stunning bright colours
When charged particles from the Sun are guided by Earth’s magnetic field towards the poles, they collide with gases high in the atmosphere.
Each colour tells its own story, and on a clear night, the sky above becomes a window into the science of our atmosphere.
As they do, they release energy as light. The colour that appears depends on two things: which gas is hit and how high up the collision happens.
From the familiar greens of oxygen collisions to the exceptionally rare blues of nitrogen far below, every aurora is a unique display shaped by the Sun, Earth’s magnetic field and the gases that surround our planet.
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