Northern Lights

A photo gallery of the Aurora Borealis

These curtains of colored light that appear in the sky, predominantly in

the Arctic and Antarctic regions of

the earth, are known as the

Aurora Borealis.

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Depending the degree you are at on the world, solar activity and atmospheric

conditions the Aurora Borealis give off different colors and light shows.

This magnificent spectacle occurs

as a result of solar particles

colliding with the gases in the

earths atmosphere.

The unique colors of light produced by a gas are called its spectrum. The auroral lights' colors are determined by the spectra of gases in the Earth's

atmosphere, and the height at which the most collisions take place. Incoming particles tend to

collide with different gases at different heights which results in different colors.

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