+18 How Is The Northern Lights Formed Ideas. Solar storms on our star's surface give out huge clouds of electrically charged particles. Auroras, also called the polar lights, are rarely visible outside 70 degrees north and south latitudes.

15, 2017, from the international space station. Earlier in the year, a severe g4 storm struck. Web the lights are formed at an altitude of 100 to 250 km above the earth’s surface from electrically charged particles.