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Nature’s Light Show
How’s this for a night-light? This award-winning photo by Nickolas Warner shows swirls of glowing green light over Alaska. That dazzling display is known as the northern lights, or aurora borealis (uh-ROR-uh bor-ee-AL-uhs). Auroras are colorful bands of light that are most visible in areas close to Earth’s poles. Auroras form when electrically charged particles from the sun crash into gases in Earth’s atmosphere. These collisions cause the sky to light up in ribbons of bright colors.
El espectáculo de luz de la naturaleza
¿Qué te parece esta luz nocturna? Esta foto premiada de Nickolas Warner muestra espirales de una resplandeciente luz verde sobre Alaska. Este deslumbrante fenómeno se conoce como las luces del norte, o aurora boreal. Las auroras son franjas de luz de colores que son más visibles en las zonas cercanas a los polos de la Tierra. Las auroras se forman cuando partículas cargadas eléctricamente del Sol chocan con los gases de la atmósfera terrestre. Estas colisiones hacen que el cielo se ilumine con cintas de colores intensos.