Light in the Night Sky
Source: USA Today
Waves of green and violet light dance across the night sky. We're miles and miles away from everything standing in a snow-filled clearing. The guide says that the sound of faint hissing or that similar to radio static often accompanies the lights, but in this moment, I hear only beautiful silence.
Finnish legend tells that the lights originated with a little arctic fox. It once ran so quickly across the snow that its tail made sparks fly into the night sky, creating the northern lights. His enthusiasm is contagious and he finishes the story with the fact that the Finnish word for northern lights literally means 'fox fire,' and a look in his eye as though surely, with this last detail, we believe the legend is true.
I tend to be drawn toward science, so I'm intrigued as we learn that it's bursts of energy from the sun, small particles carried by solar winds, and attracted by our magnetic field, that collide with our atmosphere to produce the light display. The scientific name is (aurora polaris) or, (aurora borealis) in the northern hemisphere and (aurora australis) in the southern hemisphere.
With my hands buried deep inside my jacket pockets, warmed by thick gloves, I continue to watch the lights dance above the clearing and beyond the pine trees in the distance, as far as I can see. The sight is majestic, mesmerizing, and in this moment, I feel how incredible it is to be on, a part of, and bear witness to this planet Earth.
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Source: Visit Finland
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