One night, fog gathered thickly, abstracting the licks and sighs of the northern lights.
Northern Lights just an elaborate mausoleum, or perhaps a floating lab for an experiment in zero-gravity mummification.
Seeing the northern lights for the first time is a thing of wonder.
Or take in the Northern Lights from the comfort of a warm bed in a luxury glass igloo in Lapland.
Off to the port (left) side were the faint green tendrils of northern lights, as well as lightning in the far distance.
James Brew, from Andreas, photographed the Northern Lights from Smeale on Sunday.
The trilogy comprises The Northern Lights - called The Golden Compass in the US - The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.
His moody themes have less to do with blues and swing than with mesmerising soundscapes that paint the northern lights and rock-bound coasts.
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" Iceland is probably one of the best places to see the northern lights, " said Reykjavik tour guide Arni Magnusson of AM Tours.
Next up, Tim heads to Alaska to work with a team of researchers studying the northern lights with high-tech balloons and helmet cameras.
Scientists say the northern lights are created by the sun's super hot atmosphere, which blasts particles into the protective magnetic field surrounding the Earth.
Yet for all the excitement in "The Asgard Project, " it was the amazing scenery and colors of the northern lights that stole the show.
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Among his goals: bike around China, witness the Great Migration across the Serengeti in Africa, see the Northern Lights and explore the whole of Australia.
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Called the Carrington Event, this CME knocked out telegraph lines across the country and the Northern Lights were seen as far south as Cuba.
Tim will be traveling all the way to Alaska to work with a team of researchers studying the northern lights with high-tech balloons and helmet cameras.
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The northern lights have been particularly spectacular in 2013 as the sun is expected to reach the peak of its 11-year solar cycle later this year.
Another highlight: the Polaria Centre, an aquarium and theater featuring educational programs about the Northern Lights (greatest show not on earth), and local polar bears and seals.
But even exhaustion doesn't keep me from getting up at 3 a.m. for yet another astounding view: the swirling Northern Lights, like ocean bioluminescence in the sky.
To see the northern lights requires patience and good fortune.
Esquimau igloos and polar bears and the beautiful Northern lights.
Released across Scotland's main Cineworld sites in five cities on Friday 3 May, We Are Northern Lights will compete against the big Hollywood franchises such as Iron Man and Star Trek.
The Northern Lights happen when incoming solar radiation hits the earth's upper atmosphere and excites atoms to a new energy state, emitting colours which is energy in the form of light.
New this year, Northern Lights Golf, with rounds played (fingers crossed) under the Aurora Borealis's glow, joins an activities roster bristling with rugged pursuits like snowmobiling, ice fishing, snowshoeing and dog sledding.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "The Blob" from the sun has come and gone, sparking nothing more than beautiful views of the northern lights and there could be more blobs to come.
The Lifestyle Club's 35 employees have already satisfied requests such as a New Year's Eve helicopter excursion to behold the Northern Lights in Iceland, and a tented dinner party for 100 in Giza, Egypt.
More commonly known as the Northern Lights, when the spectacle is in full flow iridescent colors dance across the Arctic night, setting the sky ablaze with a range of cosmic greens, reds and yellows.
Ultimately, there will be a news item: Bob, tragically, must have fallen off the ship on the last night of the voyage while leaning over to get a better camera angle on the northern lights.
"You can no longer just take a short drive from the city and look at the Milky Way or the northern lights, " says Chad Moore, a board director for the International Dark-Sky Association, a Tucson-based nonprofit organization.
You won't find any fjords, and a view of the Northern Lights is unlikely, but this hip hotel does sit in the thick of sundry dining and drinking establishments, and within walking distance of funky Fremont, the Ballard Locks (one of Washington's top tourist attractions) and scenic Golden Gardens Park, which offers splendid views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.
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