Northern lights is an ancient astronomical phenomena. The old Nordic culture called it “spirit dance” and said the lights were reflected light from oceans of fire. Northern peoples believed that the auroras were places of the dead. With ancient beliefs about the marvelous polar auroras behind us, today’s science can understand the curtains of shining and billowing lights for the natural spectacle of energy.
The magnetosphere of the Earth emanates from the north pole, and located directly above them are magnetic sinkholes where solar winds and radiation seep into the ionosphere layer of our atmosphere. The solar winds are a continuous flow of subatomic particles from the Sun’s atmosphere that pass throughout our entire solar system. As the energy from the Sun comes in contact with the magnetosphere, the energized solar particles, mainly electrons and protons, follow the magnetic lines and get drawn to the poles.
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