Aurora Borealis or The Northern Lights – Nature’s most fascinating phenomenon. People see pictures and they cannot believe their own eyes, everyone thinks it must be a Photoshop thing. No one imagines colorful fluorescent ribbons dancing in the sky can be seen on this Planet. It’s a fairy tale dust, it doesn’t exist! But in fact, it DOES EXIST, and it’s so real, you can see it with the naked eye. The Nature’s own gigantic light show, when Earth meets Heaven can be also scientifically explained as collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth’s atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres.
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Northern Canada
(Best viewing locations: Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Calgary, Manitoba, Northwest Territories)
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Alaska
(Best Viewing Locations: Fairbanks, Denali, Yukon Territory)
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Iceland
(Best Viewing Locations: Outside Reykjavik, Þingvellir National Park, the entire country)
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Greenland
(Best Viewing Locations: Kulusuk, Ammassalik)
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Scotland
(Best Viewing Locations: Aberdeen, Isle of Skye, Northern Highlands, Dunnet Head)
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Norway
(Best Viewing Locations: Tromsø, Alta, Svalbard, Finnmark)
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Finland
(Best Viewing Locations: Luosto, Nellim, Utsjoki, Ivalo, Kakslauttanen)
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Sweden
(Best Viewing Locations: Kiruna, Abisko, Swedish Lapland)
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Denmark
(Best Viewing Locations: All islands within its archipelago)
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Russia
(Best Viewing Locations: Murmansk, Siberia, Kola Peninsula)
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