Northern Lights
These beautiful skies have caught many people's attention which has brought curiosity to the explanation of these wondrous lights. The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as "Aurora borealis" in the North and "Aurora australis" in the South. The Northern Lights are seen in many colors such as: red,yellow,green,blue, and violet that are scattered in clouds of light to streamers. Due to the lack of the advanced technology the past century we have been restrained from dissecting that phenomena, but we now have the required equipment to discover what causes these wondrous lights. We now know that electrons and protons from the sun are blown towards the earth on the "solar wind". Since the Sun's atmosphere temperature can reach up to millions of degrees Celsius this temperature cause collisions between gas molecules which are frequent and explosive. Free electrons and protons are thrown from the sun's atmosphere by the rotation of the sun and escape through holes in the magnetic field.
