Stories
The science, the stories, and the folklore of the northern lights.
The Aurora Map Made of People
A forecast tells you which nights are worth hoping for. A live sighting tells you the one thing it never can: it's happening, right now, over there.
My First Aurora, at Twenty Below
One photograph of a howling husky sent me to Alaska with two backpacks and a few hundred dollars. The story of a winter spent waiting for the lights.