The Northern Lights are a stunning phenomenon in the sky that unveil themselves on a star-spangled firmament in the polar night. As the last feeble solar rays leave the arctic regions for just a few weeks every winter, the Northern lights appear as an inspiring source of fantasy for those who get carried away by the swirling and luminous effects. They look like gigantic waves in yellow, green and scarlet, as they unfold across winter darkness with an amazing power that is breath-taking and almost difficult to cope with.
Seen and heard a lot about the Northern Lights lately? Would you like to see this magnificent spectacle for yourself? Also called Aurora Borealis or Arctic Lights, these amazing lights have attracted a lot of well-deserved attention on TV, radio, newspapers and other types of media lately, and no wonder why.
They derive from light, that changes from polar night to polar day and looks like the white and bright surfaces that diffuse scattered light and beautiful pastel colours, arctic haze, polar stratospheric clouds and mysterious types of red winter light. It’s like a blue winter light – the light that paints the ground a magical blue and silhouettes the mountain tops against the southern sky long before the sun reaches the horizon.
The blue phenomenon awakens all of our senses after a long polar night. Being able to see the horizon and the blue mountain-sides is a mystical sight, year after year.
These fantastic Northern Lights have a significant influence on people and animals. Large variations in daylight and darkness influence people’s minds and the activity patterns of the native arctic animals. The Aurora has not only fascinated but inspired Greek philosophers and early northern literature. The secrets and beauty of the Northern Lights fascinate and draw us to the North to explore the scientific outlook of the polar environment and for artistic inspiration. The Aurora is today an international tourist attraction, attracting people from all ends of the globe.