:: Aurora ::

Have you ever wonder what goes on over the other side of the world? What is there over at both end of the world (i.e. North Pole and South Pole)?

I am so amazed with Mother Nature... Especially in the Artic Region... The Artic is a vast, ice-covered ocean surrounded by tree-less, frozen ground, that teems with life, including organisms living in the ice, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals and human societies.

Most importantly, I love the Aurora (or Northern Lights)... They are all so beautiful and so amazing that it is created by elements that we can never see but yet surround us... It is like a painted sky to me...

Aurora is a beautiful natural phenomenon that often occurs in the polar regions of Earth. It appears as colorful clouds and rays of green and red (and sometimes blue) light that dance across the sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis (Latin for "northern" and "southern" dawn, respectively) occur in symmetric ovals centered on the northern and southern magnetic poles of Earth. The aurora is formed when charged particles (electrons and protons) are guided by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere near the poles. When these particles collide with atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere, primarily oxygen and nitrogen, some of the energy in these collisions is transformed into the visible light that characterizes the aurora.

Here's some beautiful pictures of Aurora (Northern Lights)