a person standing in a snowy field with a bright light in the sky

Otherworldly, elusive and high on travel Bucket Lists, the Northern Lights phenomenon has long enchanted those chasing a glimpse of its mesmerising colours. And while the celestial display also known as Aurora Borealis is famously fickle, a trip to northern Canada offers a very good chance of witnessing it: nature’s most magnificent lightshow unfolds in the country’s north on an average of 240 nights a year. So what exactly causes the vast glowing curtains of emerald green, yellow and purple that fills the night sky? The lights you see are charged particles from the sun that are colliding wit