THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

FACTS

• The Northern Lights are polar lights
• Also known as the aurora borealis
• Can be seen from many places, but most visible from the North Pole
• Colors depend on charged particles in the solar wind
• reacting with atmospheric atoms

INTERESTING FACTS

• There is also a Southern Lights
• Auroras exist on other planets too
• During a geomagnetic storm they could be seen as far as Florida
• Canadian scientists have been studying this for over 170 years

NORTHERN LIGHTS

• Can be seen from space
• You can't predict a light show
• The light shows are unpredictable and you never know when they could occur

What makes it a plasma?

The sun's plasma reacts with the gas in the atmosphere. This is what makes it a plasma.

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