By: Jenna Weeks

The northern lights are the result of collisions between gassiness particles In the earths atmosphere with charged particles released from the suns atmosphere. Variations in color are due to the type of particles that are colliding. Picture taken from the guradian.com WHAT CAUSES THE NORTHERN LIGHTS?

The northern lights comes from some Latin words. aurora is he name of the roman goddess of dawn, later it became the word for dawn it’s self. Borealis is a Latin word for the north. So when you see the northern lights its as if were seeing the dawn in the north staring in the night sky. Picture taken from blogspot.com Blogspot B HOW DID THE LIGHTS GET IT’S NAME?

People had many different beliefs about what the northern lights were. The lutes told tales of dead souls playing walrus skull soccer in the sky. According to a Chinese myth, the lights were fighting dragons. Russians believed them to be a sign of child birth, while the Greeks believed them to be a sign of war. Picture taken from expeditionsalask.com WHAT DO YOU THINK THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE?

In space you can see and fly into the northern lights. CAN YOU SEE THE NORTHERN LIGHTS FROM SPACE?

the northern lights are in the list of natural wonders of the world. including the grand canon, the great barrier reef, the Harbored Rio de Jairo, Mt.Everest, northern lights, Rarictin volcano, and Victorai falls. Pic taken from mnn.com NATURAL WONDERS OF THE WORLD