Time Lapse of Earth Taken From The International Space Staion Is Amazing

Here is an awesome pic of the aurora or northern lights

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Once again some info from wikipedia on this phenomenon.  Some people in Canada and the northern parts of certain continents can see these effects:

An aurora, sometimes referred to as a polar light, is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high latitude Arctic and Antarctic regions.[nb 1] Auroras are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in the form of electrons and protons, precipitate them into the upper atmosphere thermosphere/exosphere, where their energy is lost. The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emits light of varying colour and complexity.

and finally the video on the next page

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