The Aurora Borealis: Three Foundational Aspects

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Three Foundational Aspects
The Aurora Borealis is an amazing and wonder site to spectate for all ages and especially spectacular for photographers to capture that exact moment with all the different shades, but have you ever wondered why there are different colors? Where these extravagant pictures are taken? More well as why some pictures you see are clearly more visible and vibrant than others. In these short essay I will discuss the science behind all these questions.
What makes different colors?
Just like the sun, the aurora has a spectrum of visible light but is much more restricted. It is caused by changed particles in the solar wing colliding with atmospheric atoms and ions (Nassau, n.d.) Collisions cause these electrons of the atmospheric