# Northern Lights

Northern lights most commonly refers to the aurora borealis, a natural light display in Earth's sky.
(The) Northern Light(s) may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Film

* Northern Lights (1978 film), about the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota
* Northern Lights (1997 film), a Disney movie
* Northern Lights (2001 film), a Russian film
* Northern Lights (2009 film), or Nora Roberts' Northern Lights, a TV film
* Northern Light (film), a 2006 Dutch film
* Northern Lights: A Journey to Love, a 2017 Filipino drama

### Television and radio

* Northern Lights (TV series), a 2006 British comedy-drama series
* Northern Lights, a 2023 Irish-Belgian TV series
* "Northern Lights", a 2000 episode of Dawson's Creek
* Northern Lights (radio show), a Canadian programme until 2007
* Northern Lights, a fictional element in the TV series Person of Interest

### Literature

* Northern Lights (Pullman novel), by Philip Pullman, 1995
* Northern Lights (O'Brien novel), by Tim O'Brien, 1975
* Northern Lights, a 2009 novel by Nora Roberts, on which the 2009 film is based
* Severni sij ('Northern Lights'), a 1984 novel and 2005 play by Drago Jančar
* A Northern Light, a 2003 historical novel by Jennifer Donnelly
* The Northern Light (college newspaper), of the University of Alaska Anchorage
* The Northern Light (Maine), a weekly newspaper
* The Northern Light (novel), by A. J. Cronin, 1958
* The Northern Lights, a 1991 novel by Howard Norman
* The Northern Lights, a 2002 biography of Kristian Birkeland by Lucy Jago

### Music

* Northern lights chord, an 11-note chord
* Northern Lights (bluegrass band), an American group
* Northern Lights (Canadian band), a 1985 supergroup that recorded "Tears Are Not Enough"
* Toronto Northern Lights, a Canadian men's chorus
* Hootenanny Singers, or The Northern Lights, a Swedish folk group

#### Albums

* Northern Light (Ask Embla album) (2013)
* Northern Light (Jon Christos album) (2005)
* Northern Light (Covenant album) (2002)
* Northern Lights (Gareth Emery album) (2010)
* Northern Lights (Northern Lights album)
* Northern Lights (Sissel album) (2007)
* Northern Lights – Southern Cross, a 1975 album by the Band
* Northern Lights, a 1996 EP by Klaus Waldeck
* Northern Lights, a 2016 album by Zeds Dead

#### Songs

* "Northern Light" (song), by Basshunter, 2012
* Northern Lights (Death Cab for Cutie song), 2018
* "Northern Lights", by Dala from Everyone Is Someone, 2009
* "Northern Lights", by DZ Deathrays, 2014
* "Northern Lights", by Ella Henderson from her second album Everything I Didn't Say, 2022
* "Northern Lights", by Goldenhorse from Riverhead, 2002
* "Northern Lights", by Hunter Brothers from State of Mind, 2019
* "Northern Lights", by Megumi Hayashibara, 2002
* "Northern Lights" (Renaissance song), 1978
* "Northern Lights", by St. Vincent from Strange Mercy, 2011
* "Northern Lights", by Soft Cell, 2018
* "Northern Lights", by Thirty Seconds to Mars from Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams, 2013
* "Northern Lights", by Timo Tolkki from Classical Variations and Themes, 1994
* "Northern Lights", by Sentenced from North from Here, 1993
* "Northern Lites", by Super Furry Animals, 1999

## Businesses and organisations

* Northern Lights Casino, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Northern Lights College, in British Columbia, Canada
* Northern Lights Community School, in Warba, Minnesota, U.S.
* Northern Light Group, an American knowledge management company
** its "Northern Light", an early Web search engine (1996–2002)
* Northern Lights Secondary School, in Moosonee, Ontario, Canada
* Northern Lights Shopping Center, in Economy, Pennsylvania, U.S.

## Transportation

* Northern Light (clipper), an American ship 1851–1862
* Northern Light (sternwheeler), active on Puget Sound in the 1900s
* Northern Light (pilot boat), an American pilot boat
* SS Northern Lights, later SS El Faro, an American cargo ship
* Northern Lights (train), a named British passenger train
* Northern Lights Express, a proposed American passenger train
* Northern Light (spacecraft), a concept mission for a robotic mission to Mars

## Other uses

* Northern Lights (cannabis), a strain of cannabis
* Northern Lights (carbon capture project), in Norway
* Northern Lights (football team), in New Zealand
* Northern Lights (pipeline), in Russia and Belarus
* The Northern Lights (whiskey), a blended Canadian whisky
* Northern Lights suplex, a move in professional wrestling
* Northern Lights, a codename an eMac computer model
* County of Northern Lights, a municipal district in Alberta, Canada
* Operation Northern Lights, a 2006 U.S. military operation in Iraq