If you’ve ever been awestruck by the very thought of witnessing northern lights one day, imagine what it would be like to fly right through them.
An airline passenger caught a breathtaking view of the Northern Lights from midair, as her flight passed through the spectacular celestial light show.
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Emily Snyder, who was on a United Airlines flight to London, had never expected what she witnessed as the world below lit up green, and the sky was clear enough for an amazing photo.
“It was incredible, still feels like a dream having seen it!” she told Indy100.
Norway and Iceland are places where the phenomenon of Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights is visible most commonly.
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What Are Northern Lights?
The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth’s atmosphere, as per Northern Lights Centre.
The phenomenon appears above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as ‘Aurora Borealis in the north and ‘Aurora australis’ in the south.
In 2020, a photographer captured Northern Lights and a double moonbow in one image.
The spectacular phenomenon linked to activity on the surface of the Sun was visible in the skies from parts of northern Scotland.
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People also spotted a double lunar rainbow called a ‘moonbow’ spread across the sky on a clear night.
Photographer Andy Walker took some stunning images at Durness in the northwest Highlands of Scotland, and shared them online.
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