Experiences
Aurora borealis Turn off all your artificial lights and gaze up into the sky and you can witness the sun’s greetings reaching us on Earth. In the northern hemisphere, we call it the northern lights or Aurora Borealis, while you around the South Pole will experience Aurora Australis.
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here is a couple of things to take into consideration for your successful aurora chase. Up north, Kiruna to Abisko, under the auroral oval, it’s not so much about whether it’s northern lights or not, more if it’s clear sky or not. Talking about a northern lights chase is more about chasing clear skies. Already in 2015 Lonely Planet dubbed Abisko as the world’s most illuminating experience. Giving the northern lights in the village up north all that acknowledgement, that the buzz had been about for years. On any given day, between November and April, you can take the
chair lift to the top of the mountain Njullá just to watch a incredible light show. There’s a good chance that you might witness a green, blue or red light in the shape of drapes, curves or rays dancing across the sky. It is particles from the sun colliding with the outer parts of the Earth’s magnetic fields in the atmosphere, whereby the kinetic energy is transformed into visible light. And without this magnetic shield, it’s a good chance our electrified life on earth would struggle big time. Text: Editorial Photo: Swedish Lapland, Adobe Stock and Shutterstock MORE NORTHERN LIGHT ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES
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