1. The Northern Lights Aurora borealis
By Baillie

2. What are the northern lights ?
The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth’s atmosphere . This beautiful lights are seen over the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they release a photon ; This process causes the beautiful aurora(or Northern Lights). The most common shades found are pale green and pink, the rarer shades are read,yellow dark green,blue and violet … The shades are very unique and different they always appear in different shapes and sizes !

3. Where can you find the Northern Lights ?
You can find the northern lights around late November to March within the northern lights zone . Svalbard (Norway ) is one of the best places to see the northern lights are you can't go much further north: kakslauttanen(finland) ,Jukkasjarvi (sweden), Reykjavik (iceland) ,Northern Canada and Scotland(United Kingdom ) are also good places to see the Northern lights If you ever go to see the northern lights you may want to stay a while as there is only a 50% chance to see them as they are very rare to see .
Also one of the best places is Iceland as it has guaranteed darkness and there is more of a chance to see them .

5. Extra information
As this beautiful streams of lights dance through the dark sky … we are snapping away at this majestic things as they swiftly appear and disappear .
*We always say how beautiful they look but most people know little about them .
*They are made when a charged particle crashes against a atom in the earth’s atmosphere … when they drop back down they leave a splat of colors around the world which make the northern lights .

6. This is the map of where the northern lights happen in the Arctic Circle.

7. Here are some sightings of the beautiful northern lights these are the most common colors .