The aurora borealis (or northern lights) can be an almost eerie sight: Picture emerald green swirls coloring the otherwise darkened sky. But scientists have a boring explanation for this ...

Usually, people need to travel far from Reykjavík's city lights to catch sight of the aurora ... latitude, Iceland, on the whole, tends to be a great place to see the northern lights when skies ...

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It was a cool experience, he said, but he was surprised when he looked at cellphone photos ... Travel said bookings on its winter trip to Iceland — largely driven by northern lights seekers ...

was trying to figure out how to deal with tourists suddenly parking their cars in the middle of Iceland's highways to snap photos of the northern lights. Abrupt stops on highways, he said ...

Unfortunately, such sightings are rare and most people wanting to see the aurora borealis (the scientific name for the phenomenon, coined by Galileo Galilei) will have to travel further north.