Northern Lights

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Northern Lights is a common name for the Aurora Borealis (Polar Aurorae) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Northern Lights may also refer to:

Books, film, television, and radio

• Northern Lights, a romance novel by Nora Roberts
• Northern Lights, a 1975 novel by American author Tim O'Brien
• Northern Lights, a 1991 novel by Howard Norman
• Northern Lights (novel), a 1995 novel by Philip Pullman
• Northern Lights, 2002, the true story of the life and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the troubled genius who solved the mysteries of the Aurora Borealis, by Lucy Jago
• The Golden Compass (film), a 2007 film adaption of the Philip Pullman novel

• Northern Lights (1978 film), a 1979 movie directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson
• Northern Lights (1997 film), a 1997 movie starring Diane Keaton
• Northern Lights (2009 film), a 2009 made-for-television film based on the novel by Nora Roberts
• Northern Light (film), a 2006 Dutch film

• Northern Lights (TV series), a 2006 UK comedy-drama series
• "Northern Lights" (Dawson's Creek episode), a 2000 episode of the American TV series Dawson's Creek
• "Northern Lights Out", an episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon TV series

• Northern Lights (radio show), a Canadian radio music programme

Music

• Northern Lights (Canadian band), a 1985 Canadian supergroup
• Northern Lights (bluegrass band), an American bluegrass group
  • Northern Lights (album), the self-titled debut album by the American bluegrass group
• The Northern Lights, the name used by Swedish folk group The Hootenanny Singers for an American LP release
• Northern Light (Covenant album), 2002
• Northern Light (Jon Christos album), 2005
• A 1996 EP by Austrian musician Klaus Waldeck
• A song by English band Renaissance from the 1978 album A Song for All Seasons
• A song by New Zealand band Goldenhorse from the 2002 album Riverhead
• A song by American musician St. Vincent from the 2011 album Strange Mercy
• A song by Japanese seiyū Megumi Hayashibara
• Toronto Northern Lights, a Canadian men's chorus
• "Northern Lites", a 1997 song by Super Furry Animals from the album Guerrilla
• Northern lights chord, from Ernst Krenek's Cantata for Wartime (1943)

Ships, nautical

• Northern Light (clipper), a clipper ship, perhaps the fastest clipper ship of all time
• Northern Light (sternwheeler), a steamboat active on Puget Sound circa 1890

Other uses

• Commissioners of Northern Lights. now called the Northern Lighthouse Board, the lighthouse authority for Scotland
• Northern Lights County, Alberta, a municipal district in northwestern Alberta, Canada
• Northern Light Group, an American knowledge management company specializing in search engine technology and strategic research portals
• Northern Lights (cannabis), a strain of cannabis
• Northern Lights College, in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
• Northern Lights suplex, a move in professional wrestling
• Northern Lights (passenger train), a named train in the United Kingdom which runs from London to Aberdeen
• Northern Lights (pipeline), a natural gas pipeline system in Russia and Belarus
• Northern Lights (online game), a 1992 MUD, or text-based online role-playing game
• Northern Light (spacecraft), a proposed space mission of Canada to Mars
• Northern Light (whiskey), a blended Canadian whisky
• Operation Northern Lights, a 2006 U.S. military operation in Iraq
• Northern Lights, a codename for the second model of the eMac

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