Wonders of the Natural World – Northern Lights

first name between the sixteenth and
seventeenth century by Galileo the
aurora borealis translates from Latin
into the Red Dawn of the north that’s
their scientific name but they’re more
commonly known simply as the Northern
Lights these amazing lights are created
when solar particles are thrown out of
the Sun and when these particles collide
with atmospheric gases in the Earth’s
atmosphere it creates light particles
what millions of these collisions take
place you have in Aurora the most common
place is to see the northern lights or
in the northern parts of most of the
Nordic countries the northern parts of
Russia elastic Canada however the
northern lights can be seen pretty well
anywhere in the world it can even be
seen at the equator but don’t get your
hopes up that only occurs about every
200 years
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