Southern Lights

What causes the Northern and Southern Lights? The famous Northern and Southern Lights -- Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis for those Latin lovers among us -- are caused by high-energy particles from the Sun cascading down on Earth.

Northern and Southern lights Colorful display produced when atmospheric molecules, excited by charged particles from the Van Allen Belts, fall back to their ground state. northern lowlands (on Mars) ...

The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (), i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin.

Aurorae, glowing gases that create the northern and southern lights, are common on Jupiter because energetic charged particles needed to excite the gases are always trapped in Jupiter's magnetosphere.

The aurora, the Northern and Southern Lights, are generated by collisions between charged particles from space and gases in Earth's atmosphere.

Auroral light (northern and southern lights, aurora borealis and aurora australis) Belt of Venus Circumzenithal arc Crepuscular rays Earthquake lights Elves [1] Glories (also known as Brocken's Specter or Specter of the Brocken) the Green ray ...

Also called the northern lights (or southern lights in the southern hemisphere). The aurora is a shimmering curtain of green and/or red light seen toward the north (in the northern hemisphere).

Also known as the southern lights, this is an atmospheric phenomenon that displays a diffuse glow in the sky in the southern hemisphere. It is caused by charged particles from the Sun as they interact with the Earth's magnetic field.

aurora australis The aurora in the Southern Hemisphere, also known as the Southern Lights. aurora borealis The aurora in the Northern Hemisphere, also known as the Northern Lights.

The aurora, commonly known as the northern and southern lights, is a ghostly light show seen most often at high latitudes of Earth. The proton aurora is invisible to the naked eye and has never been viewed from space.

Above the north and south poles, the magnetic field has less effect and the particles can get low enough to interact with the atmosphere, where they create aurorae (northern or southern lights) visible from latitudes near the poles.

Shuttles and the Space Station fly in paths that take them to the top and the bottom of the Earth in one orbit. They are able to see the Northern and the Southern Lights in one trip. Most people never see them at all.

Those that occur during magnetic storms can create extremely impressive spectacles. The Aurora australis, or "Southern Lights" occur near the South Pole while the Aurora borealis, or "Northern Lights" occur near the North Pole.

aurora -- the light emitted by atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere. This light is a result of magnetic disturbances and appears to us as the northern or southern lights.

The composition of this high-speed solar wind may vary, but it always streams away from the Sun. The solar wind is responsible for the Northern and Southern Lights on Earth and causes the tails of comets to point away from the Sun.

On occasion these more powerful flares can even cause satellites on orbiting the Earth to malfunction. They can also interact with the Earth's magnetic field to create impressive and beautiful light shows known as the Northern and Southern lights.

A trajectory of charged particle (electron Such motion of Solar wind plasma in the magnetic field of Earth results in Northern Lights (and Southern Lights) - spots of glow in upper atmosphere above magnetic poles of Earth where energetic electrons ...

Auroras have been seen on several planets in our solar system. On Earth, auroras are also known as the "Northern Lights" (aurora borealis) or "Southern Lights" (aurora australis), depending on in which polar region they appear.

These eruptions shoot charged particles into the solar system, some of which eventually enter the Earth's magnetic field, causing the beautiful Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern Lights).

In the northern hemisphere, the aurorae are called aurora borealis or ``the northern lights'' and in the southern hemisphere, they are called aurora australis or ``the southern lights.

Bubbles in the solar wind produced by collapsing solar magnetic fields produce the northern and southern lights (the aurora), and have even been know to affect power grids on the ground.

See also: Light, Earth, Sun, Solar, Aurora