8 thoughts on “ Aurora Borealis ”

1. The Aurora Borealis (commonly referred to as the Northern Lights) are the result of interactions between the Sun and Earth's outer atmosphere. The Aurora Australis is the southern hemisphere counterpart to the Aurora Borealis. What Causes the Aurora? .

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2. The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) are the result of electrons colliding with the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. (Protons cause faint and diffuse aurora, usually not easily visible to the human eye.) The electrons are energized through acceleration processes in the downwind tail (night side) of.

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3. Feb 05,  · Indeed, the aurora borealis is visible most nights, weather permitting, within a band several hundred miles wide that's centered at about 66 degrees north — about the same latitude as .

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4. 2 days ago · The Northern Lights—also called the aurora borealis—are pink, green, yellow, blue and violet lights in the night sky. They’re caused by the solar wind in space —charged particles from the.

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5. Oct 11,  · The northern lights, or aurora borealis, offer an entrancing, dramatic, magical display that fascinates all who see it — but just what causes this dazzling natural phenomenon?

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6. Sep 24,  · REAL TIME AURORA BOREALIS PREDICTION: Here is the prediction of storm intensity for the next few minutes (the higher the Kp number, the larger the Aurora): The New Soft Serve News Aurora Prediction Program estimates that in 2 minutes, the Geomagnetic Activity level (Kp number) will be Quiet.

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7. The best time to watch for aurora is the three or four hours around midnight, but aurora occurs throughout the night. Active auroral displays tend to be more diffuse and fragmented later in the night, which means that 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. is typically the time period with the highest probability of seeing spectacular auroral displays over interior.

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8. Feb 15,  · In Norse mythology, the aurora was a fire bridge to the sky built by the gods. This ethereal display – the aurora borealis or aurora australis, the northern or southern lights – is beautiful Author: Eleanor Imster.

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