Crossing the Blues

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Northern Lights Tonight

Northern Lights TonightNorthern Lights Tonight: a “solar tsunami” is straight to the Earth, which means it might be a good time to head outside. On Sunday, a powerful explosion of radiation from the sun exploded and began the journey of two days to Earth. The high-energy particles are due to collide with the Earth’s upper atmosphere tonight.
The auroras occur when energy particles from the sun come in contact with the upper atmosphere of Earth. When the energy Earth gets charged, the particles react and the atoms / molecules in the upper atmosphere of the earth to the photons we see as the aurora. For us living in