Lights
The other name for the northern lights is aurora borealis.
Another name for the aurora borealis is the Northern Lights. It is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions.
"The Northern Lights" is Aurora Borealis's commonly used name.
The Northern Lights. Borealis is "north" and aurora is similar to "lights" so "northern lights". There is such thing as Aurora Australis that occurs in the south.
the northern lights
The proper name for the 'Northern Lights' is Aurora Borealis.
Northern lights.
"The Northern Lights" is Aurora Borealis's commonly used name.
The Aurora Borealis was named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, because of its vibrant and colorful display in the northern hemisphere.
Northern Lights (or southern if in the southern hemisphere)Northern lights
Aurora Borealis was named after the Roman Goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.From the Latin "Aurora" = the dawn and from the Greek "Boreas" = The northern wind. (In Greek the winds coming from the four points of the compass had a different name. Boreas for the northern wind, Notus for the southern wind, Zephyrus for the western wind, and Euro for the eastern wind.)So Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) mean 'the dawn of the north'.Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn and Boreas is the Greek name for north wind. The same effect occurs in the south pole, however there it is called Aurora Australis. Australis is Latin for "South".Aurora Borealis was named after the Roman Goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621."Borealis" is the northern aurora, "Australis" is the southern aurora.
Aurora sort of translates to "lights" (it's the name of the Greek goddess of the dawn). Boreas was the Greek god of north winds. So Borealis means "northern". So it translates almost directly to "northern lights". BTW, Aurora Borealis is technically the proper term for them.