If you have ever wanted to see the Northern Lights but don’t want to travel to the North Pole I have the solution for you. Just go on X! That’s right, the platform formerly known as Twitter currently has a fantastic display of the Northern Lights in Alaska. A photographer captured the incredible views on their most recent trip to Alaska and shared it with the world.
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Northern Lights In Alaska, A Sight To Behold
The photographer captured some incredible footage of the lights and shared a video on X. Now the world can enjoy the view, too. The video starts in the early morning hours, as the camera pans up the trees into the star-lit sky. Then, the vibrant green lights appear.
Thick streaks of them cover the sky in an endless display of natural beauty. The scene looked too incredible to be real. Almost as if it were a scene out of a movie. The green lights seemed to go in a sort of swirl, or staircase pattern, leading the eye up and up further into the night sky.
The beautiful classical music playing over the video just made it that much more awe-inspiring. The photographer was sure to get all different angles of the lights. Proving that the Northern Lights in Alaska are stunning no matter how you look at them.
What Are The Northern Lights?
Besides being something high on people’s bucket lists, many do not understand what the Northern Lights truly are. While it looks beautiful, when you break it down it is actually a rather violent event. Space.com shares how the Northern Lights in Alaska form.
They state, “The Northern Lights are created when energized particles from the sun slam into Earth’s upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 45 million mph.” If that sounds fast and deadly, it’s because it is. Luckily for us, “our planet’s magnetic field protects us from the onslaught.”
They explain further that “at any given moment, the sun is ejecting charged particles from its corona, or upper atmosphere, creating the solar wind.” Then, they state, “When that wind slams into Earth’s ionosphere, or upper atmosphere, the aurora is born.
So the next time you see the stunning green lights shooting across the sky, remember what is happening. The Northern Lights in Alaska are just a bunch of energized particles ejected from the sun, slamming into our atmosphere. Regardless, it is a stunning sight to behold.
The source of the featured image is here.
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