Watch: Northern lights over Iceland in sped-up footage

Time-lapse photos person captured the bluish lights connected the outskirts of the superior Reykjavik.

The lights, besides known arsenic aurora borealis, hap erstwhile charged particles collide with gases successful the Earth's ambiance astir the magnetic poles. As they collide, airy is emitted astatine assorted wavelengths, creating colourful displays successful the sky.

The auroras are astir commonly seen implicit precocious polar latitudes, and are chiefly influenced by geomagnetic storms which originate from enactment connected the Sun.