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If you opt into emails, you may unsubscribe at any time. To read our privacy policy click here. Auroral displays can also be seen over the southern tip of Greenland and Iceland, the northern coast of Norway and over the coastal waters north of Siberia. Southern auroras are not often seen as they are concentrated in a ring around Antarctica and the southern Indian Ocean. Areas that are not subject to 'light pollution' are the best places to watch for the lights. Areas in the north, in smaller communities, tend to be best.
Researchers have also discovered that auroral activity is cyclic, peaking roughly every 11 years. The next peak period is Winter in the north is generally a good season to view lights. The long periods of darkness and the frequency of clear nights provide many good opportunities to watch the auroral displays. Usually the best time of night on clear nights to watch for auroral displays is local midnight adjust for differences caused by daylight savings time. In Roman myths, Aurora was the goddess of the dawn.
In medieval times, the occurrences of auroral displays were seen as harbingers of war or famine. The Maori of New Zealand shared a belief with many northern people of Europe and North America that the lights were reflections from torches or campfires.
The Menominee Indians of Wisconsin believed that the lights indicated the location of manabai'wok giants who were the spirits of great hunters and fishermen. The Inuit of Alaska believed that the lights were the spirits of the animals they hunted: the seals, salmon, deer and beluga whales. Other aboriginal peoples believed that the lights were the spirits of their people.
The magnetic field forces the solar wind away, and makes it travel around the Earth instead. The magnetic field interacts with the solar wind and guides the protons and electrons down towards Earth along the magnetic field, away from the middle of the planet and toward the north and south poles. Because of this, we get both northern and southern lights — also known as the aurora borealis and the aurora australis. When the solar wind gets past the magnetic field and travels towards the Earth, it runs into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is like a big blanket of gas surrounding our planet, which contains lots of different particles that make up the air that we breathe and help to protect us from harmful radiation from the Sun. This puts lots of energy into the bottle, and when you open it, this energy will be released in a big stream of fizzy bubbles.
Then, the particles let out all that energy in the form of light instead of bubbles. Our eyes see green best out of all the colours, so we see green the brightest when we look at the northern lights. It is easiest to see the northern lights in winter when is it very dark at night, and also outside of cities and away from street lights.
You are more likely to see them the further north you are too. Check out this great website Aurora Watch from Lancaster University — it might just help you find them! Hello, curious kids!
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