Dancing Skies: Catching the Northern Lights in Abisko, Sweden

Swathes of green lights danced and shimmered across the sky, almost like electronic curtains flapping before us. What had started out as a faint beam of white light radiating from above the clouds now stretched well into the east, forming a green arch over the horizon. Once we moved higher up into the mountain away from the lights of the city, the color of the aurora became clearer.