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05-28-2017, 10:17 PM
A dazzling aurora borealis light show captivates the internet
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Saturday evening stargazers were treated to one of the trippiest natural phe**me**ns Earth has to offer: a naked eye-visible aurora borealis.
The "**rthern lights," as they are often called, originate with our sun. Solar storms that occur there emit streams of charged particles which help to trigger the unusual light show once they reach Earth.
SEE ALSO: The mystery of panda's fur color is finally solved (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/why-pandas-are-black-and-white/)
The magnetic fields emanating from our **rth and south poles pull the charged particles down into our upper (and sometimes lower) atmosphere, where some of them collide with the neutral particles that reside there. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/28/aurora-borealis-may-2017-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Saturday evening stargazers were treated to one of the trippiest natural phe**me**ns Earth has to offer: a naked eye-visible aurora borealis.
The "**rthern lights," as they are often called, originate with our sun. Solar storms that occur there emit streams of charged particles which help to trigger the unusual light show once they reach Earth.
SEE ALSO: The mystery of panda's fur color is finally solved (http://mashable.com/2017/05/24/why-pandas-are-black-and-white/)
The magnetic fields emanating from our **rth and south poles pull the charged particles down into our upper (and sometimes lower) atmosphere, where some of them collide with the neutral particles that reside there. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/28/aurora-borealis-may-2017-photos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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