Sometimes referred to as the Polar Lights or Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis is a natural phenomenon that appears as streaks of neon-colored, iridescent light moving across the sky in the world's farthest polar regions.
A truly magnificent display of nature's beauty, the Norther Lights occur as the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind.
Travelers visiting the northernmost regions of Earth in winter are likely to see this dazzling light show blaze across the night sky.
In the south, near the southernmost pole of the globe, a similar phenomenon occurs, known as the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights.