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How The Northern Lights Are Created

This video explains how particles originating from deep inside the core of the sun creates northern lights, also called aurora borealis, on our planet.

See an extended multimedia version of this video at forskning.no (only in Norwegian):
forskning.no/​artikler/​2011/​april/​285324

This video is produced by forskning.no in collaboration with the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo.

Production, animation and music: Per Byhring
Script: Arnfinn Christensen
Scientific advisors: Jøran Moen, Hanne Sigrun Byhring and Pål Brekke
Video of the northern lights: arcticlightphoto.no
Video of coronal mass ejection: NASA

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2 Comments

  1. Aquila1769 says:

    Marvelous. Thanks

  2. Karen in Chicago says:

    Thanks for a fascinating and beautiful video!

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