1st 'hyperspectral' image of aurora borealis reveals true colors of northern lights

Colorful sheets of light in green, pink and red dance across the night sky above silhouettes of evergreen trees.

A newly developed instrument shows Earth's Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis in a dazzling rainbow of colors. 

There's no shortage of images of Earth's auroras, the Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australias, dazzling ribbons of lights that dance over our planet's northern and southern hemispheres, respectively. Both amateur and professional astronomers photograph this dazzling phenomenon pretty much every time it makes an appearance.