Beautiful Aurora (Northern Lights)

A preview of the Thinktank Planetarium new fulldome AURORA. Sit under the stars and watch a ballet of light as solar flares hit our atmosphere.

Auroras result from emissions of photons in the Earth's upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 miles), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of solar wind particles being funneled down and accelerated along the Earth's magnetic field lines; excitation energy is lost by the emission of a photon of light, or by collision with another atom or molecule:

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• aurora
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• solar
• flares
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• thinktank
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[onedawomn]

Beautiful :-)