{"id":171836,"date":"2025-12-07T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/171836\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:49:08","slug":"dancing-skies-over-the-north-pole-northern-lights-captured-from-35000-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/171836\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing skies over the North Pole: Northern lights captured from 35,000 feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/northern-lights.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing skies over the North Pole: Northern lights captured from 35,000 feet\" title=\"Photograph taken by Jake Chasan\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photograph taken by Jake Chasan From the window of a commercial aircraft cruising above the Arctic Circle, the night sky transformed into something other-worldly. Curtains of glowing green light unfurled across the darkness as the northern lights \u2014 also known as the aurora borealis \u2014 put on a rare aerial performance over the polar ice.The aurora appears when charged particles released by the Sun crash into Earth\u2019s atmosphere at tremendous speeds. Guided by the planet\u2019s magnetic field, these solar particles collide with oxygen and nitrogen molecules high above the surface, triggering a brilliant light show. Oxygen glows green and red, while nitrogen shimmers in blues and purples, creating the surreal waves and spirals that make the aurora one of nature\u2019s most hypnotic spectacles. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photograph taken by Jake Chason..\" msid=\"125813429\" width=\"\" title=\"View of northern lights while flying above the North Pole. (Photo by Jake Chasan)\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photograph-taken-by-jake-chason.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View of northern lights while flying above the North Pole. (Photo by Jake Chasan)<\/p>\n<p>Usually visible from ground locations near the Arctic Circle \u2014 such as Norway, Iceland, Alaska and northern Canada \u2014 the lights are shaped by solar storms occurring millions of kilometres away. When the Sun is particularly active, the auroras intensify, rippling faster, glowing brighter and spreading further south. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"These images capture the northern lights as seen from an SFO\u2013Qatar flight.\" msid=\"125813438\" width=\"\" title=\"Flying over the North Pole. (Photo by Jake Chasan)\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/these-images-capture-the-northern-lights-as-seen-from-an-sfoqatar-flight.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flying over the North Pole. (Photo by Jake Chasan)<\/p>\n<p>Seen from 35,000 feet, however, the experience is transformed. With no city lights to interfere and clouds drifting below, the aurora appears closer, larger and more fluid \u2014 like luminous smoke pouring across the sky. From this vantage point, Earth\u2019s curvature becomes visible, the frozen terrain stretches endlessly below, and the heavens seem to spill downward in moving colour.For passengers unaware of what awaited them beyond the glass, the flight was routine. But for those who looked out, it became unforgettable \u2014 a reminder that even in an age of GPS and jet engines, the sky still holds mysteries that no technology can tame.Above the pole, beneath the stars, the Earth quietly revealed one of its oldest secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photograph taken by Jake Chasan From the window of a commercial aircraft cruising above the Arctic Circle, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16382,85,46,24082,15335,101604,101603,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-171836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-aurora-borealis","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-night-sky","12":"tag-northern-lights","13":"tag-northern-lights-from-flight","14":"tag-northern-lights-photography","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}