The Northern lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, are the most spectacular and natural sites of the world. These lights paint a colorful backdrop at night across the Arctic Circle. Very few people have been lucky enough to see them in their full glory. The colorful display is visible across Norway, Canada, and even Scotland.
Recently, these lights were visible from the northeast part of England; this was only after a huge solar storm hit the earth with equal amounts of radiation. A radiation storm entails emission of proton radiation from the sun at a high speed into the earth’s atmosphere. An example of this is the May 2005 radiation storm that marked the emission of protons into earth’s atmosphere at a speed of ninety-three million miles per hour. Once the protons are in the atmosphere, they are attracted to the magnetic poles of the earth, which are to the South and the North Pole.
These might have been known to light up airplanes as they pass across the glowing area. The most common colors of Aurora Borealis are red, green, and blue. These Northern lights exist because of the sun’s hot atmosphere that emits particles through the earth’s protective magnetic covering.
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