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The northern lights, which are also known as the aurora borealis, are the result of solar storms on the Sun that rain down charged particles onto the Earth’s atmosphere.
Northern lights usually dance in the sky for a few minutes and then slither off. Sometimes a display can last around 15 to 30 minutes or even a few hours. But that is unusual.
The data collected by FIRMS are presented as a free web mapping service, with the active fire locations if any overlaid on a map. [1] The detections are displayed on top of a static background layer and each visualized detection is clickable to display its data, such as detection time, coordinates, satellite and instrument.
Here’s what to know about viewing the aurora borealis. Viewing the northern lights in Idaho Like most nighttime celestial events, the first order of business is to get away from light pollution.
An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains ...
40 minutes of the Northern Lights. This was by far the most spectacular aurora I have ever seen. The main burst was too fast moving to capture with the camera. Technical stuff: Sigma 10-20 lens at 10mm f/5.0. Exposures from 6 to 20 seconds continuous shooting (the brightest part is all 10s exposures, ISO800).
Increased solar activity causes auroras that dance around Earth’s poles, known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis.
A phenomenon also attracting numerous tourists is the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. [47] In Finnish Lapland, the number of auroral displays can be as high as 200 a year, whereas in southern Finland, the number is usually fewer than 20.