Slogging through waist-deep snow, he saw the lights overhead, emerald ribbons dangling on the horizon. “It was going to be a fantastic night,” the photographer, Nicholas Narog, 35, told The Epoch Times. “But it kept getting better and better, and eventually the lights were over my head.” An accountant by day, Narog, from Minneapolis, knew…

The storm chaser checked his phone for the umpteenth time. He saw real-time solar wind parameters all lined up for a northern lights display of epic proportions. Indeed, weather photographer Gunjan Sinha, 44, anticipated he was going to have a fun night. Sinha is blessed with his flat prairie province, Saskatchewan, ranking among the top…

Far from all the urban noise and city lights, a cluster of igloos rests on the shores of an Arctic lake. But they are no ordinary igloos; they’re made of glass. Inside, guests nestle in snug beds and gaze up at a majestic, starry expanse with breathtaking auroras visible through the sky roof. Outside, wolverines,…

Not once, but twice this season, Norwegian skywatchers have been delighted by a super rare showing of the aurora borealis displaying unusual pink and purple hues, fading into an even rarer orange. Stunning photos depict the northern lights in a whole new visual dimension. Estonia-born photographer Markus Varik, 37, has trekked widely for his photos since 2009…

Now in its fifth year, the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas, has released 25 of its best photos of aurora borealis from hundreds of dazzling entries. The winning images were taken from locations across the world, the winners representing 13 different nationalities, and were announced…

1. Light Pillars It isn’t the Northern Lights, it’s a different phenomenon known as light pillars. In freezing temperatures, flat fluttering ice crystals may create a crystal fog near the ground. The crystals reflect lights from the ground up into pillar-like beams. Light pillars over Laramie, Wyoming, USA, on a very cold January night. (Christoph…

An American photographer, who waited years for the chance to capture an epic natural phenomenon on film from his new home in Iceland, was rewarded by a double whammy: an erupting volcano against the spectacular backdrop of the aurora borealis. Preparations for the photo that would become a viral sensation began even before lava flowed….

In search of northern lights, photographer Marc Adamus delves into the Alaskan boreal forest, marching to the sound of ice crystals crunching beneath his snowshoes. Setting up his camera in the dying light of sunset, he has only to wait for adequate darkness to fall; aurora borealis, though omnipresent day or night, diminishes in sunlight,…

CHICAGO—A fireworks show that has nothing to do with the Fourth of July and everything to do with the cosmos is poised to be visible across the northern United States and Europe Sunday night. On Thursday, the sun launched what is called an “X-class solar flare” that was strong enough to spark a high-frequency radio…

Unpredictable and incomparable, like magic curtains fluttering in the solar wind, the Northern Lights are a popular bucket-list experience that people often anticipate and dream about for years. While you don’t need to go all the way north to see the brilliant cosmic display of the Aurora Borealis—I’ve seen them as far south as Milwaukee—it…