The Big Foto The red color of this aurora is caused by the charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms high in the Earth’s atmosphere. Hopefully there will be more to come as Sun’s activity increases in 2012-13.
Being able to photograph it all night Alex Cherney came up with a nice video. The brighter Aurora happened on [...]
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Aurora australis, the southern polar lights
Aurora borealis, the northern polar lights
Aurora Borealis southern counterpart, the aurora australis or the southern polar lights, has similar properties, but is only visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, or Australasia. Australis is the Latin word for “of the South.”
The light show comes to us courtesy of our Sun. Electrically charged particles produced on the Sun [...]
Aurora Borealis or commonly named The Northern Lights is a natural display of lights in the North Pole regions of our globe. The lights appear as flowing streams of color in the sky taking different shapes and contours and often look like a multicolored curtain coming down from outer space.
The light show comes to us [...]
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