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What causes the aurora borealis or northern lights?

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Think about a place where most people on the world aware of it and looking forward to see it. It is only possible to watch online for most. That is aurora borealis & northern lights  or the aurora australis in the name of south. For those of you who wonder how this amazing lights works, what causes them, I found a video on youtube published by BrainStuff -  HowStuffWorks. You can directly   watch that video over youtube via the link here . I also add video transcript below for people who would rather read. Enjoy!   The text of the Video The Northern Lights are beautiful and odd and they've understandably inspired tons of myths over the years. Like the Vikings thought they were a bridge to Asgard where Thor and the other gods live and another Norse legend says that there the light reflected off the Valkyrie shields. And then people in Finland thought it was the archangel Michael, John Travolta, fighting Beelzebub the Devil. The problem is, those ar...
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What is the Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights?

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For those of you who wonder northern lights / aurora borealis, here is the video that explains published on youtube from Ted-ed, which you can directly watch over the youtube via the link here . I also wrote the text version of the video below for people who would rather just read . Enjoy!    The TEXT Every second, one million tons of matter is blasted from the Sun at the velocity of one million miles per hour, and it's on a collision course with Earth! But don't worry, this isn't the opening of a new Michael Bay movie. This is The Journey of the Polar Lights. The northern and southern lights, also known as the  aurora Borealis and aurora Australis, respectively, occur when high energy particles from the Sun collide with neutral  collide neural atoms in our atmosphere. The energy emitted from this crash produces a spectacle of light that mankind has marveled at for centuries. But the particles' journey isn't just as simple as leaving the Sun and arriving at E...
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