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Summary Green and orange northern lights appeared in the skies above Finland.
The multicolored aurora borealis and aurora australis -- the Northern Lights and Southern Lights -- represent some of Earths most dazzling natural displays.Green and orange lights lit up the skies over northern Finland.An aurora, called aurora borealis or the northern lights in northern latitudes, is a natural light display in the sky.Auroral displays are associated with the solar wind -- electrically charged particles continuously spewing outward from the sun. Earths magnetic field lines reach far out into space as they store energy from the solar wind.
