Over a period of seven months in 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a beautiful display of northern lights over Saturn’s north pole.
Here on Earth, people experience the northern lights (southern lights in the southern hemisphere) when fast-moving particles from the sun travel along the solar wind and interact with the planet’s magnetic field.
Auroras, also called the northern lights, are caused by magnetic particles moving down toward the poles and then interacting with molecules of nitrogen and oxygen which transform the sky into bright bands of green, red and violet lights.
The northern lights dance above Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta. (Nicole Mortillaro/CBC News)
Earth is not the only planet to experience this spectacular phenomenon. The giant outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn,
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