Dancing silently in Earth’s upper atmosphere, they form iridescent sheets of green and red (or sometimes blue and purple) light. And this week, across the northern United States—and even parts ...

The aurora, also known as the northern ... light, caused by the interaction between solar particles and our planet's atmosphere. Auroras come in a wide variety of colors — from green to pink to ...

If you feel like you've seen more of the northern lights painting the night sky lately, you'd be right—and there's an ...

Green and red light are emitted by oxygen. The color of nitrogen is blue and purple. You can find more northern light details on the Space Weather Prediction Center, which provides an aurora ...

Stargazers will be in for a treat tonight – the Northern Lights will be visible over parts of the UK. The Met Office has said the influence of a solar wind stream and a glancing coronal mass ejection ...

The northern lights are forecast to grace the skies ... the aurorae tend to give off a blue–pink–purple light (from the former) and a green hue (from the latter). A map from the National ...

The northern lights may be visible from parts of the ... aurorae tend to give off a green hue (from the former) or a blue–pink–purple light (from the latter.) The geomagnetic storms forecast ...

The colors of the northern lights can range from blue to red to green to purple, with a few less common colors mixed in. The colors indicate both the altitude of the aurora and the atmospheric ...

Now, reports show that the U.S. may see more northern lights in early June ... but can also appear red, pink, blue or purple. Space.com provided explanations for a few of the colors seen in ...

causing the northern lights to appear in the sky. Oxygen gives off a green and red light, while nitrogen glows blue and purple.

Oxygen gives off a green and red light, while nitrogen glows blue and purple. When northern lights are active, the best time to see them is between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Emily Barnes reports on ...

The northern lights can appear as green, pink, purple or blue rays, sometimes with a red border. Shimon expects a lesser experience on Wednesday, Oct. 9. "A little bit of a break," he said ...