Some people call it the Aurora Borealis. Others call it the Northern Lights, but the main question is: What is it? The aurora is a pale light that comes across the sky and shimmers with drape-like movements. There are auroras all around the United States, but Alaska is probably the most famous for them, and you can see them best in the winter. The Aurora Borealis occurs most frequently during the eleven-year sunspot cycle. This is because sunspots are related to solar flares.Some auroras go lengthwise for thousands of miles.

Most Northern Lights are about sixty to six hundred, twenty miles above the earth. The lowest aurora is at least forty miles above the earth.