It’s tiiiiiiiiiime 🎵⁣:

⁣Northern lights add a bit of festive holiday flair to our home planet. As our nearest star, the Sun bathes Earth in a steady stream of energetic particles, magnetic fields and radiation that can stimulate our atmosphere and light up the night sky, like the northern lights, also known as aurora borealis. When this phenomenon happens in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s called aurora australis.⁣

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Image description: A green, fog-like haze stretches over Canada. At the edges of Earth’s atmosphere, the light takes on a purple-red color, eventually fading into the darkness of space. Some stars are faintly visible. At top left, a portion of the solar arrays of the International Space Station is backlit against the planet.⁣

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Credit: NASA⁣

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26 November  2023