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Norway continues centuries-long study of Northern Lights

A field station of the Tromso Geophysical Observatory and the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association project outside Tromso, Norway is seen on January 21, 2026. (NEW YORK TIMES)

The world’s first permanent northern lights observatory is visible atop Mount Halde in Norway on January 23, 2026. (NEW YORK TIMES)

A space physicist works at the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, examining archival materials in Norway on January 15, 2026. (NEW YORK TIMES)

The aurora borealis is visible above the world’s first permanent northern lights observatory atop Mount Halde, outside Alta, Norway on January 23, 2026. (NEW YORK TIMES)

A control room at a northern lights research station outside Tromso, Norway is seen on January 16, 2026, ahead of Norway launching a10,000-antenna radar system to begin the next phase of exploration. (NEW YORK TIMES)

A red aurora illuminates a UHF antenna for the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association northern lights project at a research station near Tromso, Norway on January 19, 2026. (NEW YORK TIMES)

Magnar Gullikstad Johnsen, the head of the Tromso Geophysical Observatory, seens at work in Tromso, Norway on January15, 2026 as the country continues its scientific quest to understand the aurora borealis. (NEW YORK TIMES)

A bust of the physicist and Arctic explorer Kristian Birkeland greets visitors to the northern lights observatory atop Mount Halde in Norway, captured on January 22, 2026. (NEW YORK TIMES)

Source: NEW YORK TIMES

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