Northern lights
Example Sentences
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It will also be the first mission to continuously record the northern lights, which are caused by solar winds, for 45 hours at a time.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
A few days before Christmas, Dasher is soaring alone through skies illuminated by the northern lights when, upon landing, she meets a polar bear.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
The couple named their child Aurora for their love of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025
It’s hard not to consider humankind’s own future in this region-unspecified, newly aquatic land where mountaintops are islands, northern lights dazzle and finger-like towers that seem man-made dot the background.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
But he was not prepared for the aurora borealis—the northern lights.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
