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r/northernlights

45.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.8K upvotes, which works out to 172 per 1,000 members.

172peak upvotes per 1,000 members
45.2Kmembers
7.8Kbest post
91most comments
101posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

48% 29% 24%
Image 48% Gallery 29% Video 24%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Photography 29 Northen Lights 1 Southern Lights 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Aurora dancing outside my house

↑ 7.8K πŸ’¬ 60 video 2025

The most colorful Aurora I have ever seen

↑ 6.1K πŸ’¬ 48 image 2025

real time aurora tonight!

↑ 5.2K πŸ’¬ 46 video 2025

I took this photo last Oct 8th, it was one of the most powerful auroras I've ever seen

↑ 4.3K πŸ’¬ 22 image 2024

The Northern Lights in Washington State

↑ 4.1K πŸ’¬ 16 image 2024

Slept under this in Iceland 🌌

↑ 4.1K πŸ’¬ 73 video 2025

real time aurora

↑ 3.9K πŸ’¬ 19 video 2025

NO, I AM OBSESSED

↑ 3.9K πŸ’¬ 22 video 2024

Real time video of an intense substorm tonight

↑ 3.8K πŸ’¬ 47 video 2025

The best inflight entertainment ever

↑ 3.8K πŸ’¬ 52 video 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/northernlights, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.