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 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: ...
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...
Northern Lights in Yellowknife: A First Aurora Storm in Photographs
Yellowknife, the small capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, is one of the best places on Earth to see the northern lights. A photogra...
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...
Tiina Törmänen’s Arctic Photos: Northern Lights and Snowy Forests
Finnish photographer Tiina Törmänen has spent more than 25 years photographing the far north: snow-loaded trees, northern lights over froze...
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 ...
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...
Nicholas Buer's Night Sky Photography: Aurora, Milky Way and Mountains
Curtains of green, pink and violet light pour down behind a jagged peak, and a calm sea reflects the glow. Nicholas Buer's night photog...
10 Best Places to See the Northern Lights, from Alaska to Lapland
The northern lights glow brightest in a ring around the top of the world, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Every place on this list...