Northern Lights Proposal in Lofoten: Dale Sharpe and Karlie Russell
Australian landscape photographers Dale Sharpe and Karlie Russell had watched the northern lights together around 30 times. On a winter tri...
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Northern Lights & Aurora Borealis Photography
Explore northern lights photography and stories of the aurora borealis above mountains and winter landscapes. Browse northern destinations, night-sky photography and memorable encounters beneath the lights.
Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
Wolf-Shaped Northern Lights: Marja-Terttu Karlsson’s Pajala Photograph
First you see the green sweep of the northern lights. Then a pointed muzzle, an arched back and what looks remarkably like a wolf bounding a...
Inari Northern Lights Time-Lapse by Tomi Rantanen, Finnish Lapland
A small boat sits on a dark lake while green and violet curtains of light ripple overhead. Finnish photographer Tomi Rantanen spent the aut...
Milky Way and Northern Lights Over Loch More: Winiarczyk’s Time-Lapse
Maciej Winiarczyk had set up his camera on the banks of Loch More in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, to film a time-lapse of the Mi...
Horacio Llorens Paramotors Beneath the Northern Lights in Tromsø
Spanish paraglider Horacio Llorens has flown over deserts, mountains and the Himalayas, but in January 2016 he took his wing somewhere new: ...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
Joni Niemelä’s Northern Lights Photos from Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Most northern-lights photographs from Finland come from Lapland, but Joni Niemelä made these far to the south, on the plains and lakeshores...
Humpback Whales under the Northern Lights: Harald Albrigtsen’s Tromsø Film
In autumn 2015 NRK photographer Harald Albrigtsen was out on Kvaløya, the big island west of Tromsø in northern Norway, testing a new low-li...
Northern Lights Superstorm Video: Aurora, Kp and the March 2015 Storm
Curtains of green light ripple across the sky, their lower edges flaring pink as they twist and fold. This real-time aurora video, uploaded...
ISS Symphony: Dmitry Pisanko's Time-Lapse of Earth and Aurora from Orbit
A green aurora spreads across the curve of the Earth while the International Space Station's hardware stands in silhouette in the foreg...
18 Green Aurora Photos from Norway, Iceland, Canada, Alaska and the ISS
Green is the signature colour of the aurora, and these 18 photographs show it from two very different places: the snowy ground of Norway, I...
Real-Time Northern Lights in 4K: Ronn Murray’s Fairbanks Aurora Film
Most northern-lights videos are time-lapses that speed the sky up many times. Ronn Murray of The Aurora Chasers went the other way: on the ...
Night Sky Photography: Milky Way and Aurora Landscapes
The best night-sky photographs are about more than stars. A lone figure, a ring of standing stones or a still lake turns the Milky Way and t...
Aurora Borealis over Greenland and Iceland: Joe Capra’s Two Lands
Filmmaker Joe Capra, who works as Scientifantastic, travelled to Greenland and Iceland to film the Arctic aurora at the peak of the Sun’s 1...
Northern Lights in Norway: When and Where to See the Aurora Borealis
Green curtains of light rippling over snowy peaks, doubled in the still water of a fjord: few places on Earth put on a northern lights show...
Aurora Borealis in Real Time: Kwon O Chul's Yellowknife Substorm Video
Most northern-lights videos online are time-lapses, hours of photos squeezed into seconds. Photographer Kwon O Chul's Aurora Substorm – ...
Ben Pierce Sees the Northern Lights in Fairbanks, Alaska: A Boy's Wish
A small figure raises his arms under a sky lit green by the aurora borealis. In autumn 2014 nine-year-old Ben Pierce from Texas, who was sl...
Latvian Aurora Time-Lapse: Kaspars Daleckis Films the Northern Lights
Green and violet curtains roll above a black line of pine trees while the snow below stays perfectly still. Kaspars Daleckis filmed this au...
Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland: Fox Fires, Aurora Science and Tips
Finnish Lapland sits right under the auroral oval, and on a clear winter night the sky above its forests, fells and frozen lakes can fill w...