Famous Aurora Another Name For The Northern Lights References. Active aurora possible with slight chance of isolated minor auroral substorms and slight chance of isolated major auroral substorms. Web new englanders — in some areas of the region, at least — could be treated to a stunning display of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, in the night sky thursday night.

Web the occurrences of the aurora borealis in arctic europe—which includes finnish and swedish lapland, and northern norway—will now be named, and you can even suggest a name by going to the this is arctic website. In the north the display is known as the aurora borealis; Web answered by maura romine.