Northern Lights over the Lofoten Islands in Norway - stock photo

Northern Lights, polar light or Aurora Borealis in the night sky over the Lofoten islands in Northern Norway. Wide panoramic image with snow covered mountains and a lake in the foreground. Polar light or northern light occurs when the magnetosphere is disturbed by solar winds that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma precipitate them into the upper atmosphere of the earth.