aurora borealis

The Aurora Borelies Imagine yourself in the Middle Ages in Norway on a cold winters night. Your laying in bed looking out your window at the stars as you do every night before you go to bed. Your looking at the stars and then all of the sudden you see a faint glow appear on the horizon. You see green and red flames of light strech across the sky. A glowing curtain of light forms, …

…times people often mistook the orange lights for fire on the horizon. Week aurora look like and are as bright as the Milky Way. Medium stong aurora will outshine most stars. Strong aurora are compared to the moonlight, which is much stonger then starlight. The ongoing research of the aurora is endless. In the twentith century, auroral research focused on light emissions, alitudes, distribution and color. Today, scientist strive to understand the pro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**