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

midnight. NASA also suggest that the aurrora occurs on a twenty seven day intervals as activity

from his home in London. He began to put ideas and theriories together. In his documents he

frequient in these areas but scientist believe that due to polution and the green house efect it

writes that the theory of the aurora was based on experince and observation and contravened

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

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

basically a buring gas globe that has provided us with the gift a light and warmth for nearly five

because the southern hemisphere is less populated.

After Ezekil was the famous Greek philospher Aristotle who observed the aurora and

captures the expression that the aurora is expresed as fear and related to the concepts of hell. The

northern lights. A wedding is going on up there among the crowd of stars. The Moon is rising a

causes the particles not to easily pentrate into the atmosphere making the lights not visible.

in known univerese, into helium (Scientific American 31).

Miror", was said to be a natural phenomenon and was named "Nordurljos", or northern light. In

We should give thanks to the sun beacuse it is the gate keeper of the aurora. The sun is

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