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What are the lights above the North Pole called?

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tiburone | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Aurora Borealis

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bugsandinsects | 3 years, 5 months ago
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The lights above the North Pole are called the Aurora Borealis.

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angieopia | 3 years, 5 months ago
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If you're speaking of the lights in the sky, or Northern Lights, they are called Aurora Borealis.

According to Wikipedia:

"Aurorae are produced by the collision of charged particles from Earth's magnetosphere, mostly electrons but also protons and heavier particles, with atoms and molecules of Earth's upper atmosphere (at altitudes above 80 km (50 miles))...The collisions in the atmosphere electronically excite atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere. The excitation energy can be lost by light emission or collisions."

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tbridge | 3 years, 5 months ago
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They're the Aurora Borealis. Were they to occur over the South Pole, they'd be the Aurora Australis. They're electromagnetic disturbances in the ionosphere, totally natural.

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jeffhoard | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Aurora Borealis
Northern lights
Polar Aurora

They have been called many things, but they something else eh..
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physcab | 3 years, 5 months ago
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budgallant | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Good question. They are called Aurora Borealis or "Northern Lights".

Check out this amazing time-lapse video:
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joe4vt | 3 years, 5 months ago
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It is Aurora Borealis, though it can appear in other places beside just the North Pole. You can check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)

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chn-cs-htg | 3 years, 5 months ago
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This may be a shocker: Northern Light

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ralphhogaboom | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Those lights above the North Pole are called Aurora Borealis. "Aurorae are produced by the collision of charged particles from Earth's magnetosphere, mostly electrons but also protons and heavier particles, with atoms and molecules of Earth's upper atmosphere"
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ibrox | 3 years, 5 months ago
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The Northern Lights (aka Aurora Borealis).

The Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska has a forecast page, which will tell you when the the lights will be at brightest
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/

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shareme | 3 years, 5 months ago
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slang, Northern Lights,

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gamers600 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Northern Lights

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