You Can Now Live-Stream The Northern Lights

Spotting them has always been on our bucket list and, while we're sure it's not quite the same as seeing them in person, we'll take what we can right now.

The video stream on Explore uses footage from a camera located in Churchill, Manitoba, which is underneath the aurora oval - supposedly one of the best places on earth to watch the aurora borealis, aka the Northern Lights.

They are stunning - nature's version of a light show - and we hope it'll bring us a bit of zen whilst isolating and getting frustrated at being stuck inside.

The lights of course don't happen every night, but it just so happens that March is a great time to see them.

The Northern Lights can occur all year round and night or daytime, it's just easier to see them in the darker (winter) months of the year and at night as they are then visible to the eye.

But according to Aurora Zone (a Northern Lights holiday company) it's hard to predict what exact time is best to spot them.

It says on its website: "As a naturally occurring phenomenon, the appearance of the Northern Lights is notoriously difficult to predict any further in advance than about two hours before it happens."

So if you're on the lookout, just make sure you're looking at night.

Of course, nighttime in Canada is different to the UK. So to catch the live feed at the right time you need to log on between 2am and 11am British time - that's overnight in Manitoba.

This will give you the best chance of seeing the beautiful lights which, FYI, are caused by earth's magnetic fields interacting with charged particles from the sun.