Northern+Lights

Hello, and welcome to the northern lights. The northern lights are one of the world's phenomenons. And here you will learn a little bit about this wonder.

The northern lights are located in, you guessed it, the northern skies. What causes the northern lights you ask? Well, the sun give off high-energy charged particles, ions, into space. A cloud of ions is called a plasma, the stream of plasma coming from the sun is called solar wind. When the solar wind interacts with our magnetic-field, some of the ions are trapped and they follow the magnetic lines into the ionosphere. When the trapped ions collide with the gases, they start to glow, causing the northern lights. The reason that there are many different colors is that the sun produces white light, which is all the colors of the rainbow, so all of the colors come down to the ionosphere, producing different colors.

The northern lights are always moving due to the constant change of interaction of solar wind and earth's magnetic field. They come in many colors, including red, pink, green, blue, yellow, white and many more. Another name for the northern lights is "aurora borealis". Something you may not know is that many other planets in the solar system have northern lights as well. The forms of the auroras are as follows, streamers, arcs, banks, rays, and some more that I haven't named.

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