The Northern Lights - a Magic Experience

Documentary - continuous display on Monday November 17, Grand Foyer

"The Northern Lights - A Magic Experience" is a new spectacular popular science documentary about the stormy Sun and the Northern Lights. It is made available for science museums, planetariums and tourist industry on a standard commercial license base.

The 25 minute documentary takes you on a breathtaking journey through space. By using pedagogic top-quality animations and spectacular solar imagery from NASA satellites it tells the full story of the northern lights from myth to science. The film is packed with interesting historical anecdotes and includes tips about how to take your own stunning aurora photos.

It includes some of the world's best photography and time lapse sequences of the northern lights. The film is perfectly suited for use at science museums, planetariums, hotels and by aurora tour guide companies.




The documentary is produced by Pål Brekke, an international recognized solar physicist and public outreach expert with many years at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: solarmax.no/Aurora/Home.html.

Co-producer is award-winning aurora photographer Fredrik Broms.