Northern Lights is the common term used for Aurora Borealis. The magnificent colours are produced in the sky through a collision of charged atoms.
The Earth is like a magnet, and it has a strong magnetic field around it. The Sun sends out a solar wind and this wind differs from the wind we feel. This wind is made up of light particles which blow toward the earth. As the solar wind hits the Earth’s magnetic field, some of it is sent into the Earth’s atmosphere.
When the light particles spill into the atmosphere the particles collide with gases causing the particles to glow, which produces the lights they see in shades of red, green, blue and violet.
You can view the Aurora Borealis in the Northern parts of North America, Europe and Asia.Â