The Inuit found around Labrador, Canada believed the Aurora were torches set by spirits to lead the way for new arrivals to the heavens.

Every morning she would fly through the sky to announce the coming of the new sun and the day.

The very name “Aurora” comes from Roman mythology.

The Aurora Borealis in Myths and Historyīeing an awe-inspiring sight, it’s only natural that the Northern Lights would play a large role in a wide variety of cultures. In these two locations the Sun’s particles don’t curve away instead they are trapped by these funnels and end up hitting the oxygen and nitrogen particles in our atmosphere, giving us the Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights) and the Aurora Australia in the region of the South Pole. However, the magnetosphere has funnels where it “emerges” from the Earth itself, and those funnels are the North and South magnetic poles. Found in the Earth’s ionosphere (about 80 through to 400 km high), the magnetosphere causes the Sun’s particles to curve away from us out into space. The magnetosphere acts somewhat like a force-field that causes harmful radiation particles to bounce off or curve around the Earth, keeping us safe. Colliding and mixing with the Earth’s magnetosphere, these particles give us waves or bursts of colour depending on what kind of atmospheric particle they interact with (oxygen or nitrogen), and how high in the atmosphere they are when the collision occurs. Solar winds bursting out from the Sun (in an event called a CME – Coronal Mass Ejection) carry charged particles through space for 2 to 5 days and into our upper atmosphere.

Shimmering, twisting, and glowing in the Arctic night air, the Northern Lights are a beautiful reminder of our ever-ongoing relationship with our Sun. Every morning she would fly across the sky to announce the coming of her brother Sol, the sun. The Aurora Borealis is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The Aurora Australis is located in the Southern hemisphere and is known as the “Southern Lights”.

“Aurora” is Latin for “dawn” and was the Roman goddess of the dawn. The Northern Lights are caused by eruptions on the sun and can only be seen when it is dark.

One of the great attractions in the Arctic are the Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis. Northern Lights also known as the Aurora Borealis

The long dark aurora