[Music] if you live up in high latitudes then it's means no introduction the Northern Lights also known as the aurora borealis these stunning swirls of light dazzle the night skies of the upper northern hemisphere in the lower southern hemisphere they're called the Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights Aurora's occurred due to the interaction between Earth's atmosphere and the solar flare hurling charged particles at us from the Sun the Sun constantly shoots plasma out into space when it reaches Earth the planet's magnetic field protects us from these harmful particles but these particles do get funneled in
at the North and South Poles when the electrons from these particles come in contact with oxygen and nitrogen they transfer energy and it gets released as swirls of light called photons giving you this stunning display Aurora's can occur on other planets too one prominent world is Jupiter Jupiter's intense magnetic field produces active Aurora's over a thousand times brighter than our own if you get a chance to see these lights out sit back and enjoy one of the best natural spectacles of the night sky for the latest in space look up with a cue other astronomy
you never know what you'll see
