laying in bed looking out your window at the stars as you do every night before you go to bed.

Your looking at the stars and then all of the sudden you see a faint glow appear on the horizon.

You see green and red flames of light strech across the sky. A glowing curtain of light forms,

waving and swirling in the sky above you. The lights last about thirty seconds and then the lights

fade away and then soon dissapers. The sky is dark and clear with the stars shining down on you.

It was almost as nothing had happend. You are astonished and facinated with what you have just

witnessed but don't understand what it was.

You have just witnessed the Aurora Borealis or more commonly known today as the

Northern Lights. The Ancient Romans named this awsome natural phenomenon the Aurora

Borelis which is a Latin name. Aurora was the name of a Roman goddess of the dawn. Borelis

For thousands of years, the northern lights have fascinated and astonished the human

imagination, leading to stories, myths and paintings to explain their mysteries. Beyond superstion,

culture, mysticism and religous beliefs lie to exp

It was almost as nothing had happend. You are astonished and facinated with what you have just

outshine most stars. Strong aurora are compared to the moonlight, which is much stonger then

northern lights is in the book "The King's Mirror", a fourteenth century book wrote by the

March and October. The colors of the aurora are usually green, red, orange and pink beacuse the

northern lights is in the book "The King's Mirror", a fourteenth century book wrote by the

eyes by artist for centuries. A tapestry named "Wooers" made in the fifteeen century Germany

The Auroral Oval is the oval shaped area of the poles where the aurora usually occurs.

culture, mysticism and religous beliefs lie to explanations provided by research and science.

alltidues, some of the energy is theses collisions transforms into a visible light.

Norwegian scientist Kristain Bikeland in reality was the first in trying to expalin the event. The

aurora is a light that is emmited when charged particles from the Sun are guided by the earth's

these gases collide with sun spots they are thrown off the sun's gravtiatial axis and thrown into

The ongoing research of the aurora is endless. In the twentith century, auroral research

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