Check Out This Insane Aurora Borealis Caught on Camera

The rare event featured even rarer colors.

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00:00These are the skies over the Swedish Lapland, one of the few places in the world where you can see this, what's called the Aurora Borealis.

00:11It's the result of Earth's magnetosphere diverting solar winds away from the planet.

00:15As electrons and protons intermingle with Earth's upper atmosphere, they spiral on the magnetic field lines,

00:21leaving ions in excited states and left to interact with gases in the upper atmosphere,

00:25which give off light in drastic greens, purples, reds, and blues, and leaving most who get the chance to see them awestruck by their beauty.

00:32This particular one was captured near the Sweden-Finland border at around 9 p.m.,

00:36where spectators were treated to a spectrum of aurora colors, even the particularly rare reddish-purple pulses seen here.

00:43It's a phenomenon that until recently even scientists didn't know much about,

00:46but it's an event all will agree is truly beautiful to behold.