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Home About Schedule Northern Lights Contact Links Northern Lights   What are Northern Lights? The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earths atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and south

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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. Auroras are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and ma

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