| The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near the village of Pallas (Muonio region) of Lapland |
Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on Friday.
Travel magazine ‘All About Lapland’ posted a video on social media of the impressive light show seen from Pallas, in the Muonio region, adding it had rarely seen anything on this scale.
| The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near the village of Pallas (Muonio region) of Lapland |
The Northern Lights are a result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the Earth’s atmosphere. A strong geomagnetic storm was behind this week’s particularly stunning show.
| The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over the sky near the village of Pallas (Muonio region) of Lapland |
Known as aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, in the northern hemisphere, they go by aurora australis, or the Southern Lights, in the southern hemisphere.