Aurora borealis - the northern lights

The pulsating and multicoloured northern lights are born at a height of about 100 kilometers above ground level as electrically charged particles collide with the earth's atmosphere near the magnetic poles. Northern lights can be seen from the beginning of  September until April (but not every night). Our summertime isn't dark enough for seeing northern lights (we have the midnight sun). There are northern lights in 200 nights in Saariselkä region every year.

The Lonely Planet Blue List 2007 describes the northern lights as ”the World's Most Amazing Natural Phenomenon”.

A La Carte Lapland: http://www.alacartelapland.com

Arctic Academy: http://www.arcticacademy.fi

Aurora Borealis page by Tom Eklund: http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora.html

Arctic Circle Information: http://www.arcticcircle-information.fi/northernlights.html

Aurora in Levi center: http://www.kittilajournal.com/aurora.htm

Aurora photos by Studio Tunturi-Lappi: http://www.studiotunturi-lappi.fi/ (choose Aurora on the left)

Auroras now: http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/english/start_page.html  and http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/english/earlier_auroras_material.html

Destination North - choose Nature (at the bottom of the page) > Inanimate nature > Northern Lights: http://www.northernmosteurope.com/destinationnorth/

Finland.com Travel Portal: http://finland.com/main-63-id.do

Finnish Meteorological Institute: http://www.fmi.fi/research_space/space_9.html

Hotel & Igloo Village Kakslauttanen (one of the best places for seeing Northern Lights): http://www.kakslauttanen.fi and http://www.travel.fi/int/kakslauttanen/

Jouni Jussila: http://spaceweb.oulu.fi/~jussila/aurora/

Kiela Naturium (Northern Lights planetarium in Muonio): http://www.laplandfinland.com/?deptid=16191&CompanyID=946&showmodul=78

Lapland Finland: http://www.laplandfinland.com/?deptid=16543

Northern lights forecast: http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Ethu/Aurora/forecast.html

Northern Lights paintings: http://www.revontulitaulut.com/english/etusivu.html

Oulu University: http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/auroras.html

Polar Image (Aurora webcam & photos): http://www.polarimage.fi/menu/aurora.htm

Santa Television: http://www.santatelevision.com/northernlights/index.html

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory: http://www.sgo.fi/

Space Weather Prediction Centre: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/Aurora/index.html

Ursa: http://www.ursa.fi/ursa/jaostot/revontulet/english.html

Virtual Finland: http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25559 and  http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/aurora_borealis.html

Visit Finland: http://www.visitfinland.com/w5/index.nsf/(pages)/Midnight_Sun_and_Northern_Lights?OpenDocument&np=A

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