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GadoGado
18th September 2010, 04:14 PM
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An aurora borealis glows brightly over Churchill, Canada. Auroras occur when charged particles outside the Earth's atmosphere collide with atoms in the upper atmosphere. The result: a glowing display of curtains, arcs, and bands in the sky. The phenomenon is called aurora borealis or northern lights in the Northern Hemisphere and aurora australis or southern lights in the Southern Hemisphere.

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The northern lights turn the night sky an otherworldly green above Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada.

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The northern lights streak across the twilight sky.

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The aurora borealis illuminates the heavens with ghostly patterns.

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The aurora borealis lights up the sky above a snow-covered Canadian homestead.

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